Untitled (Apple 11) Photography a generative mode of resistance

a generative mode of resistance

which explores the themes of displacement and alienation experienced by a family living in colonial Africa

suggesting that loss can open unexpected forms of seeing

The house was still

It functions as a reflexive memory system: observing the viewer and feeding that experience back into itself

Untitled (Apple 11) Photography a generative mode of resistanceThe apple emerged as a recurring form within an image minded process, as something close to a mantra. The apple provides a tool, an inroad to mark making, and in its simplicity could be a way to both reach into the collective consciousness and resist it, to mark it with a line that is mine. At the heart of this work lies a tension between image and material, the mechanical and the intimate. The apple is so embedded in the collective image bank that it