Everybody Around Me Dancing
2024 - ongoing

I stand at the back of the party, not really at the party. I am there to look for a place, or a person, to come back to later, alone, in silence and in the daytime, to make a picture. Through highly controlled fictionalised scenes, I investigate the way in which we interact with images on a daily basis through their creation, consumption, and proliferation. I used to think I went out to have fun. Now I realise I go out to collect material, that is the fun for me. Through making the fictionalised image, the scene becomes real, and once it is real I am inside it the way I am inside every image I consume - projecting myself onto it, projecting it onto others. I am watching the room like a movie and the room is watching me too.