Review 6, 2008. Artists Statement

Order & Chaos: Catching Up With The Past, is a symbolic exploration into the confusion of the misunderstood. Chaos being the state that precedes understanding, the satisfaction that results in the emergence of order, the goal. The investigation and construction is the process.


The photographic prints presented in this review exploit dichotomies that result from order and chaos. The emergence of dualities is assisted by the juxtaposition of two images, radically different in subject matter. For me, one is a reflection on Cambodian infrastructure and development, the other, a personal reconciliation with family, home, upbringing. Environmental/psychological, intellectual/emotional and physical/metaphorical spaces.

Dualities are not restricted to subject matter. The most fundamental forms present echo each others’ concerns; tone and colour, positive and negative space, movement and stasis, shape, and medium.


“The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.” Andre Kertesz.

The process, specifically becoming more familiar with production techniques and outcomes, reiterated to me that there is no absolute. One cannot exist without the other. Order and chaos are not only relative, they are opposing concepts on the same ever-expanding scale. Chaos is an absence of awareness of the underlying structure, form, and evidence of the inherent order present in everything.

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