For this project I photographed slices of wood veneer, transforming the material through the lens. The dimensional loss of experiential space in the photographic moment comes to represent a perceptual gain for these surfaces as rendered subjectively.

Whilst the pattern in the grain of the wood, recalls the slice peeled from what once was solid, living and growing, photography instead presents us with slices peeled from space and time static, frozen and ungraspable. I am compelled to place the photographic moment as the midway point in my process. Hand-cut inkjet prints re-imagine the pictorial planes of the photographs as facets of an object. I make joins that hinge pictorial planes physically and materially before collapsing onto 2 dimensions the built essence of a solid object. I make joins in ways that evoke the traditional craftsmanship of woodworking but yet I use a simpler tool kit, that of scalpel and glue.

My aim is that photography may transcend its function as representer of things and be used instead as a sculptural tool to reconfigure form. Repositioning its role as propositional rather than referential. The materiality and physicality of my process gives object-hood and presence to that which is not there, by which I seek to honour the tree that has passed.