It's going to happen. Full stop.

"It’s going to happen. Full stop.” A series of photographs of various-sized full stops in the centre of a word-processing document on an LED computer screen. I began taking these images in 2017 after repeatedly hearing (British and American) politicians using 'full stop' or 'period' at the end of a sentence, signifying their supposed authoritarian stance and the closing down of dialogue and debate. An LED screen is made up of pixels. Each pixel contains phosphors of red, green and blue (RGB) which emit light when struck by electron beams. To produce the background of a word-processing document, the RGB phosphors are excited to their maximum intensities of 255 to create the illusion of white, or light at the same relative intensity as sunlight. To provide the appearance of the black full stops, the RGB phosphors are set to zero, meaning no electrons strike the phosphors and therefore no light is emitted. Photographing this phenomenon results in images of black circles set against a field of colour. Discrepancies in the colour fields occur due to the available light in the room hitting the screen and the camera’s relative position to it. This colour can be read as a conversation between the camera and the computer screen. The camera exposes that while the fullstops appear as dead, heavy spaces – black holes in to which all meaning is sucked – the ‘white space' surrounding the void is far from empty, expectant with the possibility of language. Printing these images large scale and positioning them on the gallery floor results in a disorientating encounter with the photographic, creating a spatial uncertainty and adding to the ambiguity of the nature of the image.