ABOUT

“speculum /’sp kulert/  n. 1 (pl. specula/ -1 /) 1 Medicine a metal instrument that is used to dilate an orifice or canal in the body to allow inspection. 2 Ornithology a bright patch of plumage on the wings of certain birds, especially ducks. 3 a mirror or reflector, especially (formerly) a metallic mirror in a reflecting telescope…”

Cited from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)


Specula and Other stories is a series of miniature paintings that reflects upon a disquieting strangeness inherent in quotidian material culture and as influenced by the proliferation of images and stories transmitted through the media.

The paintings are generated through a process of random selection and juxtaposition of images. The patterns and common tendencies which emerge through the series therefore, reflect the ways in which these images are governed by culture and context and, ultimately, how our daily reality and perspective of the world is manipulated through the similar miniature interfaces of newspapers, magazines and television.