[Documentation of work produced within the course of Masters degree in Fine Art]

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My work has always been concerned with a layered image; whether reflections through glass, water or projected slides, in an attempt to produce photography that is not just a single event, but contains layers of space and time. In an attempt to have greater control over all the elements of the photograph, and to achieve the depth of image desired, required the development of a collage technique, using transparent bromides suspended in water in conjunction with my own photographs. Having collected the images (whether self made or found), one is then free to construct the image much as one would a painting or poem. Unlike traditional collage methods however, the use of glass, water and acetate, the action of light on so many reflectit-e surf aces., produces such distortion and fusion of images that one is able to transform the original images, thus constructing a new work, and this is a technique I wish to continue developing. The elements of time, history, past, future, decay, memory (be

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