This work in progress was initially inspired by moments in literature where a sentence, a paragraph pierces through and pins down some very specific feeling or sense of things. Photography and the written word can be lines of connection to the world, even when you’re alone - during a time of change in my life I began writing in an old diary and taking polaroids, wanting to put a finger on these slippery and complex feelings.
The polaroids are an instantaneous emotional outlet, a way of marking the moment: my feeling takes on physical form and is placed within the emulsion, internal currents become carried in the spaces around me. As the outside world is coloured by our own internal world and by the past, which is always present, a few sunflowers tone the whole image in profuse yellow; another soaks up the deep, warm blues of a summer evening.
