6 September 2025
Edith asked me in the studio today where my source material has been coming from for this new body of work—I told her about the pre-2000s home videos I've been finding via Kino Library. From 16mm in the 50s to handheld camcorders in the 80s and 90s, I've been focusing on isolated figures engaged, absorbed, occupied in flow. Being drawn to these kinds of scenes and poses isn't new for me, but I've been thinking about the significance in finding them via home videos; with someone behind the camera, there's a communal or social element baked in to the act of capturing someone in their solitude. This feels like a stark contrast with how we have turned the camera on ourselves as the past two decades have unfolded since the first iPhone was released, which in turn has changed our understanding of isolation. Using my work as a mirror to reflect this inversion back to viewers is interesting to me.