After Image
The cyanotype series Afterimage was produced during the summer of 2016-17. I was exploring the place in my imagination where visual perception and memory coincide. The compositions were informed by the shapes seen inside closed eyelids after staring at a brightly lit scene.
Filtering blazing summer sunlight onto sensitised archival paper, these afterimage visualisations reference childhood bowers seen during daylight reveries and later revisited in adult late night insomniac states. They are visions of safe places to escape anxiety and danger. I reinterpret my childhood imaginary world, playing amongst ancient tangled jasmine vines, lying hidden amongst weeds on a vacant block gazing at the sky or staring up through seaweed in a rockpool dream. These are the magic and dramatic places of the subconscious which began while navigating a dysfunctional family life.