My work features a fusion of different mediums, such as photography, sculpture, installation, painting and performance. However, photography is the centre of gravity in my work, although i wouldn’t consider myself solely a photographer; for a long time, I have considered photography beyond its documentary potential, believing it has a kind of “sculptural power”.

I visualize my practice as a slow “pleasure system” in which the initial photography is fast enough to capture insights from external reality, but not deep enough to complete the entire mechanism; therefore, I need to be able to further model the image with other mediums working in direct contact with the materials.

So, my main pursuit in my artistic research has become the creation of installations that exist only to be photographed: I produce unique and dreamlike scenes in specific environments. I capture these installations in photographs, and – at the end – I destroy the material footprint. Undoubtedly this stems from my desire to create things with my own hands: I have always enjoyed getting dirty with materials and staying in contact with objects. However, I would not consider myself a sculptor, because I would never create sculptures to be shown. At the same time, I’m not interested in taking pictures of things I haven’t built with my own hands.

In my artistic practice, photography enables the creation of new spaces and sculptures that have life and meaning of their own. Photography is thus a way to put into practice a complete fading away of objects in favor of images, and therefore to push the materiality of images to its furthest.

This methodological aspect is only a part of my work but it is essential because it is the only way I have found that allows me to touch and give shape to its underlying philosophical theme.

During my philosophical studies, my main interest was always related to the question of  nature intended as a set of things that are born and become: the realm of sensitive and changeable multiplicity.

For this reason, I always try to seek out images that represent the birth of nature and its growth: the sprouting, the unfurling, the “shapes of the roots”…

My pictures usually blend a few elements - vegetation patterns, geometric objects, and occasionally human features such as hands.

The images are stark and bare; they are unreal scenes, without depth or shadows.

The presence of walls or barriers behind the photographs halts the gaze, bringing the objects to the foreground, which suspends them in an impossible shelter of unconditional balance.

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Birth / a look/ as if nothing happened / Adam and adamitic / the primitive and savage state of being / conjuring images that existed before the birth of the image / resistance / melancholy / the eternal return of daily life / I hope something happens to break the ice / touching upon ones own rituals / I see it and I finished it /off-cell / desire to expand / I cry tears like sculpture / it’s all true because I see it / choose and concentrate / the latest sighting / eyes are the body / Cloke my face / inertia and a hot statue / a touching eye / atrophy the mother tongue / the latent history of my being / the wild forests of Aotearoa.