In my work, I highlight the value of the overlooked.
For my latest work, Still Lifes//Moving stories, I had conversations with drug users and homeless people. I listened to their stories and photographed cherished objects they carry with them. These objects are presented in a way that highlights a side of them that usually remains hidden.
For my ongoing series Vanitas, I make vanitas portraits of found or recycled objects. Vanitas still lifes have always juxtaposed life and death to remind us of the unescapable cycles of nature. In a society based on over-consumption, I try to reveal the intrinsic quality in the things we seem to value the least. How well do we really know the things we carelessly throw away? Are they not worth animating? In order to be able to recycle and re-use them, must we not bring them to life first, and form a bond with them?
In my short movie The Find, the protagonist discovers his own relation to perceived value. And in my performance Island of the Gods, I revealed an apparently insignificant rock as the mountaintop of Fengari.
