Much of my work plays with the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, this has been evident in my early abstraction and layering of old master images and in my current layering of multiple images to create the Strange Appearance photogravure prints.

My August 2010 exhibition, Urban Abstractions, explored the space between representation and abstraction in photography and ideas of the liminal city. These abstract images were created in camera through focusing techniques rather than through image manipulation in post-production.

 My experiments in abstract photography involve me in a practice of seeing differently. They represent other ways of seeing and knowing: the peripheral glance, the spaces between day and night vision, squinted, blurred vision. At another level they represent a dissolution of seeing, or rather, in the blurred figures that meld with the abstract urban landscapes they represent the dissolution of the hard boundaries between self and world that is also the space of meditative experience. This connection with meditative practice and Eastern traditions was made explicit through my participation in the 2013 group exhibition Being in the Moment: Art and Mindfulness and is something that I continue to explore in my Form is Emptiness series.