Between Reality and Imagination
Staged photographs transforming everyday materials, spaces and emotions into playful, dreamlike worlds.
Captivity
Inspired by Rhea’s experience of illness as a teenager, this staged bedroom explores the tension between creative potential and physical limitation. Long exposure transforms restless energy into dreamlike traces,suggesting an imagination that remains alive even when the body must be still.
A Womb for the Brain
Caught between everyday necessity and the desire to create, I transformed a wedding dress into a playful refuge; an organic, shifting form that envelops, protects and takes on a life of its own.
Abundance
The fabric’s flowing folds echo the carved drapery of Renaissance marble statues, transforming an improvised act of play into something monumental. The image reflects my material-led approach: responding intuitively to what is available and transforming ordinary resources into new visual possibilities.
The Invisible Weight
Inspired by a fact discovered in a childhood encyclopaedia inherited from my dad; that atmospheric pressure could crush us if concentrated at one point. I built an oversized cube to give this invisible force a physical presence. The resulting image transforms an unnoticed everyday phenomenon into something oppressive and impossible to ignore.
The Purpose of Things
Wearing a brown boiler suit, I carried chairs into a park and used them in ways that resist their intended function. Returning these wooden objects to a landscape of trees, the work questions how purpose is assigned while transforming the mundane into a playful encounter.