A Stopped World
In 2020, reflecting upon the worldwide pandemic, I captured the awe of a sublime glitch in nature – a volcanic eruption – by taking screenshots to create the body of work A Stopped World. Owing to our urgent condition of hyperconnectivity, global events have greatly increased, however these momentous phenomena have become compressed into entertainment, turning films into clips, exploiting disasters as distractions. As with natural resources, these images were extracted and transformed first by technology, then by hand, blurring the boundaries between representation and reproduction, raising questions around perception and reality in the Information Age.
WORKSA Stopped World
16 hand-cut layered pigment prints
57 x 88cm per frame, 236 x 360cm total
2020
Deep, Slow, Still
Triptych of hand-cut layered pigment prints
90 x 123cm per frame, 90 x 379cm total
2020–23
Deep, Slow, Still I
Hand-cut layered pigment prints
90 x 123cm
2020
Deep, Slow, Still II
Hand-cut layered pigment prints
90 x 123cm
2023
Deep, Slow, Still III
Hand-cut layered pigment prints
90 x 123cm
2020
Default View (Deep, Slow, Still)
Layered hand-cut Kozo paper and pigment print
90 x 123cm
2020
Aerials (Tilt)
Hand-cut pigment print
76 x 61cm
2020
Flat Earth (Tilt)
Etched copper
67 x 52cm
2020
Aerials (Sweep)
Hand-cut layered pigment prints
62 x 94cm
2020
Flat Earth (Sweep)
Etched copper
40 x 65cm
2020
Aerials (Turn)
Hand-cut layered pigment prints
75 x 97cm
2020
