ABOUT

This work appears at first sight both immediate and accessible, tapping into the most basic aspects of our collective and shared human experience. My series captures glimpses into everyday life, celebrating its transitory nature and the beauty to be found in the most fleeting and unexpected of experiences. By de-constructing planned scenarios that depict a subtle grace and orchestrating a false spontaneity, these four images aim to investigate the elements and visual processing behind such a ‘moment’. These scenarios are character driven and derive their environmental textures, colours and shapes from Edinburgh’s urban city. Yet despite the images apparent ordinariness and attempts to mirror life each is in fact a carefully staged illusion in which the urban protagonists play out their roles devoid of knowledge of their context. What makes a spontaneous moment? Is it simply a series of factors all contributing towards the same destination? or is there method behind the madness. What makes a moment alluring or charming? a personal view or background or perhaps it’s the feeling of connecting to something so beautifully complex that it's cheapened with any attempt of comprehension.