Title Unknown 2007/8 

Galway Arts Centre, Ireland and The Phatory Gallery, New York.

 This installation examines the sense of distortion one experiences in a world under surveillance. Issues of personal history, identity and sexuality are examined through the metamorphosed object: an enormous, beautifully lacquered security camera pans the room; aerosol cans are made of bone china, a documented photograph of a giant conifer turns out on closer inspection to be a cell phone mast. These objects inhabit a space between disciplines and their intersections. Shifts in scale and material force the viewer to re-examine the boundaries between themselves and the work – to question whether they are participant or audience, viewer or viewed, prisoner or guard. This exhibition further developed my ongoing interest in everyday interactions and conflicts with “man-made” objects and human alterations to the environment.