Untitled works / 3-month Studio Project at the CCI Paris, 2015

As the evening’s light diminished one of my twin studio’s DMX lighting systems took over the space in a slow cyclical motion of colours from Cyan, Magenta and Yellow as in the colour wheel making an ever-changing theatre for the objects and photographs to evolve. Its brother's studio was lit with partly covered yellow fluorescent tubes attached to the wall in a random pattern creating a visual unease. It was that split act of looking, that observation which is familiar but changing that draws you into that act, challenging media: plaster cast toast juxtaposed by coral fragments, cast bone china spray cans sit in a glass shelved cabinet alongside a mound of clay dug from some of the 19th-century clay pits in Limerick, an oversized portrait of an unknown man hangs on the wall,  rabbits stiffen on the wire, black rubber is daisy chained together hanging from the rafters alongside a reinvented chandelier, a black oak miniature with hair-extensions based on the 1820 drawing of the Thomas Spring Rice Column in Limerick’s People's Park; night portraiture of a wet fallen tree in some act of self-portraiture; a costume based on a flight-suit has been reimagined in a fantastical world that declares the impossibility of its own authenticity – white stiffened fabric sits as a sentinel to black velvet lying slumped over the psychiatrist’s chair, holding a mirror up to itself.