xylella has no borders

Fundamental to my photography is a striving to understand the dichotomy between the visible and the invisible. Through methodological experimentation, I offer the viewer opportunities to perceive, detect, sense and discover ‘the invisible' lurking behind obscure textures and surfaces. The tensions that arise within my work serve the viewer only ambiguously, simultaneously engaging the audience with an experience of revelation and concealment. My approach tends towards the poetic, cultivating linguistic nuance and metaphors, even as this is balanced by a control of conceptual and theoretical rigour. The merging of practices, intervention, deconstruction, destruction and use of self-constructed objects as a subject, is an integral part of my creative process. Compositions, where the overlays acting as both, veil and window to the image and "truth" beneath. A tendency to abstraction is an inevitable consequence of my explorations. Borders between a photograph, painting and object become fluid, themselves approaching invisibility. This series is a further evolvement of working with various types of Polaroids. It has been inspired by almost invisible bacterium called "Xylella fastidiosa", an organism, which is destroying vast amounts of woodlands and landscapes - “the Ebola of nature.” Interpreted as a metaphor for global political systems I am drawing a parallel to the destruction/deconstruction of countries and societies through politicians. A gradual deterioration, which is creeping almost invisible like the "XF" within the society of people and destroying its own structure; a disintegrating society, like the crumbling stumps of the decaying woodlands and landscapes fuelled by "the Other." "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."