I moved to London a year ago and soon after I found 1st empty used drug bag from the street. I was fascinated by the images and logos printed on them and I started spending time searching through parks, bushed and alleyways to find more discarded bags. I also documented the postcode, where I found these.
At some point I started to find drug wraps as well. To me these folded square pieces of paper are small art pieces created compleatly unconciously, as the material used in these is probably what ever has been conveniently closest to hand (mainly lottery coupons).
Images, that have been cut out of the original context, and sentences, that have been cut to half, create compleatly new connotations in this context. With this work I am interested in portraiting drug dealers and maybe even offer a glimpse of their dreams and the way they see the world.
This is a work in progress.
Bacteriograms (2008) are created by cultivating bacteria samples on a gelatin surface of the negative; by using similar techniques as laboratories use to grow bacteria on Petri dishes. I gathered the samples from my own body, therefore creating kind of self-portraits.
The bacteria consumes the gelatin creating shapes and colours entirely by a chance. These degraded negatives are then printed in a darkroom making traditional c-type prints. With this work I want to raise questions about the nature and the place of photography in contemporary society.
IDEA furniture catalogue (2007) was a project where we gathered old discarded furniture from streets around Medway. The idea was to recreate and reshoot couple of pages of IKEA furniture catalogue, but only using found furniture. Texts and layouts are reclaimed from the real IKEA catalogue. When presented along reclaimed furniture; texts and layouts make new connotations and humorous juxtapositions revealing the lack of real meaning behind marketing promises.
The IDEA catalogue is not only a comment about consumerism, but also a document and portrait of life in South East England. The catalogue was produced in collaboration with Andrew Longstaff, Benjamin Bird & Toby Tellefsen in spring 2007.
This is a performance piece that comments on the C.I.A and US Military’s commonly and openly used torture methods called Professional Interrogation Techniques. These include Stress positions, where subject is hold in painful positions for prolonged periods of time, and waterboarding, which simulates the feeling of drowning to the subject. I subjected myself to these techniques in order to find out what is behind these words, which real meaning is hard to understand.