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Fable of the Bees, 2019

Written over 300 years ago, Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees addressed the growing issue of consumer culture in the West, warning of its hedonistic fate, and the collapse of the virtuous mind.

This project visualises my internal struggle of being aware, yet unable to curtail, my incessant desire to own ‘the new'. As society moves from necessity to excess, we begin to form our identity by the belongings we surround ourselves with, rather than from formative places, people, and ideas. This grid of nine individual photographs visualises the stripping back of identity and poses the question: what is left of us when we are left with nothing?