Fallacious Fog

My creative practice explores the role of the image in perception; how using fragmented and degraded images in immersive installations can be used to delay the immediacy of perceptual analysis and counteract cursory modes of viewing. By using low-grade printed images of human subjects I seek to subvert the perceived value of high definition imaging and screen technologies in mediating important human experiences like self-perception and relationship building. In doing so, I critique the way contemporary visual culture can be seen to foster lethargic perceptual habits in consumers of digital media through over-exposure to high definition images and propose that sometimes, in order to see more clearly, the objects before us must become less visible.

‍Fallacious Fog presents an arrangement of images en masse that intends to enthral the viewer in an interaction that requires them to look above and below eye level as they walk through the installation space. This elicitation intends to provoke introspection through the corporeal mimesis of perceptual inspection; it draws on the physical act of examining the work to incite internal philosophical analysis.

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Fallacious Fog, 2021  
solvent transfers on organza  
3000 x 1200 x 2500 mm