MovingStill

MovingStill, 2023 Print / Video installed at Toi Rauwhārangi

When recreating memory and story, not only am I making choices about what I pay attention to, but how I represent it.  Time based imagery reveals the subject as un-fixed, while the still photograph pins it down, etching a singular moment into the material surface of the paper or the digital screen. A photograph is, in principle, unchanging, while motion implies constant change.  The intersection of these two modes of storytelling is where I am interested to delve in the following year: to question assumptions of truth and ambiguity such that the work to come is to be an investigation that reveals both the strength and truth of my own perception. My interpretation of stories that are not my own, but that I claim as part of who I am, is one kind of truth, and simultaneously a complete fiction.