The Gift

The Gift is a story of life and death, of desire and the inability to avoid it; a story of self-destruction brought on by the brutal honesty of repeatedly failed attempts at self-fulfilment. The Gift is a Story of the Unglamorous and the Overlooked. In all my work each project has a dual narrative with a personal intimate story alongside a broader societal theme. I use paranoid fiction as a parallel metaphor to contemporary problems and an explanation of the way they affect society. The narrative constantly shifts and polarises from perpetrator to victim, within a story decipherable through the same dual narrative acting as a subterfuge to a depraved intimately experienced reality, following a polemic with an obscure rhetoric of repayment that can be more easily seen by both. The unseen is of great power. There are overarching themes that allude to social cleansing through otherness. I empathise with so many aspects of such vulnerability, as it is a personal reflection of myself, my 'black mirror', which I have had to endure. In all my work there is a synchronicity that aligns with recent events. In both my life and contemporary society at large. By using a poetic dual narrative, Stephen aims to reveal lesser known truths currently at large in society more easily seen by its victims.