My research involves collaboration, with things. I pay close attention to what materials do in a field of visual representation. I begin with attention to and with a material. It is observation, but more than that; it is acknowledging a participatory state of being with the material world, active in an exploration of material flux and transformation. My research questions are activated through unexpected material collisions, processes, and outcomes. Philosophical and anthropological texts help me to contextualise my work and find new pathways to traverse.

In Ainissa Ramirez’ book The Alchemy of Us -How Humans and Matter have transformed One Another, she examines the rewiring of human brain function because of entanglements with inventions – from copper communication cables to silicon chips, a reminder that reality is always in flux as a direct result of agential collisions. In a framework of creative practice realities arise between me and the materials. I work in ways which embrace uncertainty, messiness, and impermanence: all are vital and valuable to the flow and flux of emergent knowledges.