STORY BOXES

Combining original photographic images (often portraits that I create with old cameras and alternative processes) with found objects, I create collages layered and arranged in antique wooden boxes.  These Story Boxes are intended to be like inner landscapes, addressing the recurrent themes of the smothering of identity and our fear of being seen - truly seen by those around us.

 

I source the boxes themselves from auctions and house clearances and the contents of the box are the ephemera of everyday life, the junk that others throw away: old book covers, flakes of old textured paint, strips of leather, old nails, snippets of newspaper from years past. 

 

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