The events chosen address issues surrounding representations of violence within contemporary society. I am interested with the banality of the everyday and how watching the news and reading the newspaper has become an almost mundane activity for an apathetic audience.

The objects don’t aim to document or provide facts about these events but to visually and conceptually question the harshness of these materials when taken out of their intended context and environment.

The stereo viewing format, with a vintage charm of its own, emphasises the magical, preserving (and voyeuristic) qualities of photography, while offering the viewer a momentary disconnection from their own immediate reality.

These installations retrace the learning through interaction that occurred in our homes as we were growing up. These everyday processes help to establish some of the most fundamental actions that our bodies perform – and will carry out thousands of times throughout our lifetimes. A tangible visual record of something so critical, yet often overlooked is created, providing a constant reminder that we have the ability to physically affect our surroundings.

The measuring jugs use the product language of the family kitchen and the laboratory to reveal elements of scale, risk, arbitrariness, volumes and numbers that are present in science. ‘You’re one in a million’ is a poster for the home with a million dots, one of which is yellow. It makes super scale tangible in a world where most science is too big or small to see.

Symbolising this notion of eccentric invention “It’s Alive!” draws directly from the aesthetical nature of such films with its bare functionality and mechanical features.  It gives the user a heightened sense of awareness as they activate the switch and the light drops from the ceiling making it ideal in bringing a new sense of understanding to the mundane.