Puddled State

The photographic image tries to represent our essence as best it can. But it is always doomed to fail for one instant in a trillion instants can not represent it all. We age, we change and what remains the same can never be seen. Behind flickering eyes and beaming smiles our essence lays dormant. At 42 I’m still pondering what might be, could be and what is. Obscured and directionless I face away, extracted from my daily life is where I’m happiest.

DETAILS

Puddled State, 2009
Pigment print on cotton rag
22.5 x 30 cm

EXHIBITIONS

National Photography Portrait Prize 2009
, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Redland Art Gallery
Noosa Regional Gallery
Gladstone Regional Gallery
QUT Art Museum

Publications

Photofile, #87, August-November 2009