My aim in this mini installation was to create a multi-sensory experience, bringing the outside in. I wanted to celebrate the hills of the High Peak, as they played a significant role in getting me through lockdown, helping ground me in a time of uncertainty.
I wanted to convey the universal apprehension that swept the world during this time - it was as if we were under this unshiftable tension and fear of the unknown and for once had aboslutely no control. I suspended mesh to try and emulate this fragility, as it sometimes felt that we were, literally, hanging by a thread. The unpredictablity of mesh meant it was an ideal medium, becuase nothing about the past few years has been predictable. I wanted to keep the colour palette resemblant of the earthy tones of the hills to show that, despite all the unease, beauty remained unchanged and nature thrived. I recorded the sounds from my garden and set it behind these videos in a 15 second loop. The subtle monotony of this looped audio was an attempt to reflect the bizarre routine we found ourselves in, boring yet full of beauty when we took the time to find it.
For my final major project of my foundation year, I chose to exlpore identity through people's pocket contents.
I spoke to a variety of people - in the studio, customers at the record shop, friends, my boss, strangers - to photograph what they were carrying in their pockets at that moment. The whole process was good fun and the results surprisingly revealed a lot about each individual. I wanted the books to be as simple as possible to let the pictures speak for themselves - the reader attaches their own meaning to the items so everybody gets a different idea of the owner.
I bound all my findings together in two books: one full of the photographs alone with each pocket given a double page spread. For the second, I dipped the items in ink to print.
See full flip through videos of the books below.
Book one
Book two
Stop motion: What's in my bag?
All my findings...