Abiding by everyone else’s time is not what this artist does. She doesn’t wake up at 8 am ready for the day, nor does she go to sleep at a reasonable hour - her mind is too loud. The early hours of the night, however, is when she finds it most compelling to rest. To sit, contemplate, and rejoice in the quiet when no one else is awake. It is just her, the sirens, the occasional chatter of birds and the staggered drunks coming home from a night out. This, the unseen city, is what she documents through her lens.
Navigating an environment as an individual with anxiety and ADHD, she sees things with a greater conceptual stance than others. She is cautious of her surroundings yet leans into them with curiosity. Leading back to her roots, however, she uses 35mm film to photograph the scenes which others have a great tendency to overlook in this ever-busying city: the displaced light of a stuttering streetlamp, the hastening taxis as they race from one point to the next. There isn’t consistency, but there is a sense of neutrality. The momentary reset of one day leading to the next.
By allowing the artist's intrusive mind to surface and contemplate the slowness of the early hours at her own pace, she similarly explores the slower processes of artistic production in order to mimic her endurances. The likes of artistic journaling, film development, printmaking and spray paint experimentation allows her to home in on what she observes. These observations are her collective, her portfolio. Free of judgement, yet full of dispute as she navigates the lonesome city with a crowded mind. Perspective is subjective, and this artist has recognised this with great integrity.
