Metamorphoses

‘Metamorphoses’ is a response to Ovid’s epic poem about legendary transformations, that Nathalie Haynes considers ’the greatest of all compendia of myths’. Just like the myths, the images are unfurling each new image from the last.

Human beings, especially modern ones have never been satisfied with how they looked and the technology is feeding our vanity. You can choose your on line persona, you can be anything you want, or you don’t even have to exist at all - an avatar will be there in your place. Desires are flipping into constant flux and nothing is fixed or what it seems to be, nothing rest and nothing stays: rocks turn into humans and the other way around.

At least in photographs, I’m seeking to unite human with animal but also come up with my own visual language - taxidermied animals are mixing with found roadkill, fresh flowers mix with the ones that are no longer at their best, sex is not determined, form is not determined, there is chaos and fluidity releases an emotional response where we can externalise our pain and doubt.

Ovid’s stories are universal as we are all the mercy of the Gods (or technology or whatever we believe in), everything of human constantly changes, with our motivations and our delusions too, birds become landscapes and details become scaffoldings for memories.

Work in progress

Archival Giclee Print approx 44” height on Hahnemule German Etching paper