The Island 16x20” cyanotype print
The Distance Between Us
2019
A fundamental part of my practice is a longing to possess what is always beyond reach—a constant attempt to bridge the distance between myself and the image. The Distance Between Us confronts the paradox of the material photograph, as it oscillates between proximity and distance: tangibly real and yet somehow remote. Through my experiences of being physically present among the landscape while feeling the absence of everything else around, I explore the parallels of the refusing, impenetrable state of the material photograph. The experience of working with handmade print processes that is central to this body of work inscribes the touch and trace of my hand through the accidental specks and smears, emphasising the tangibility of the photograph. Bound by its materiality, the image becomes the untouchable. The desire to the abolish distance only leads to more distance.
The Void 8x10” wetplate tintype
Drift 8x10” cyanotype print
Reverie 20x24” silver gelatin fibre print
The Moth Cyanotype on 5x4” glass plate
Crossover 8x10” cyanotype print
Together 5x4” wetplate tintype
Still 8x10” emulsion print on Kozuke 45gsm paper
Boundless 10x10” silver gelatin fibre print
Fleeting 10x13” cyanotype print
A flicker 8x10” emulsion print on Kozuke 45gsm paper
They do not emerge, do not leave 5x4” wetplate tintype
Flume 8x10” cyanotype print
The film piece (1 min, 51 secs) is a silent projection onto a piece of translucent paper. Personal musings are weaved in text in this contemplative reverie of being within the landscape. The flicker of the moving images offer the fleeting illusion that the distance between image and self may be bridged.
Additional information:
975 Days BA Photography Degree Show, London College of Communication, 29 May — 2 Jun 2019
FLOCK at the Buday, 266 Hackney Road, London, E2 7SJ, Art East Gallery (formerly GX Gallery), 25 July — 11 August 2019
Last Minute Group Show, Loyang Rise Singapore, 20 — 22 March 2020
The British Journal of Photography (print: October 2019 Issue 7888)
Revolv Collective Degree Show Highlights
Female Magazine Singapore featuring ‘The Island’
