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BA (Hons) Photography
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Fundamental questions of human life are inescapable; despite this we are inclined to expel the unanswerable from our consciousness, particularly that of our existence.
This body of work aims to symbolise, represent, and discuss metaphysical questions of being. Each image tells a narrative whether that is one of transformation, rebirth, transience, indeterminacy. Unfolding in a dreamlike and ethereal inexplicability that at times may be anxiety provoking, we bear witness to this indistinct figure and its transformative movements. There is a sense of fragility underpinned by the metamorphosis and movement of the Death’s-head hawkmoth which is symbolic and comparable to human consciousness and life. Taxidermized, it is frozen in the past and made alive once more. The physicality of life and the body are symbolised and presented in the hands which tell their own story of transience.
