Threshold:
These photographs explore thoughts about tensions between our private and our public existences, in this case through observing the physical plane which connects the two. The windows of domestic spaces in dense, shared, urban environments act as visual thresholds – sites of collision between anonymity and exposure.
This (ongoing) work began in October 2022 following the autumn equinox, a period of gradual retreat: moods change, natural light becomes increasingly scarce and the seasonal cycle of physical and psychological adjustment continues. Unremarkable by day and balancing the needs for daylight and privacy, the uniformity of these apertures is occasionally punctuated by small signs of interior lives. As darkness falls a transformation occurs. Against a nocturnal backdrop they become beacons, emitting a soft glow charged with warmth, intrigue and ambiguity. Human presence is strangely described by fields of saturated colour, elusive shadow and inexplicit form, hinting at what may lie beyond the veil. Hopefully this work prompts a broader meditation on the language and nature of disclosure and concealment, as well as on our relationship with the intangible.
