My work focuses on the ambiguity of meaning and 'essence' in the observed world: the discrepancy between subjective experience and the concept of an objective reality. It places the viewer at the centre of this inquiry, with the aim of deconstructing rationalistic beliefs and the human desire to classify and compartmentalize the perceived world. I am fascinated by the mechanical and the technological and the assertions of scientists that these manifestations of rational thought provide absolute truths and so increase our 'knowledge' of the universe. I feel that the idea of knowledge is questionable.
One of my pieces of work in this exhibition is called Start-Stop. There is an old Chinese conundrum: if a tree falls in a forest and there is no-one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
In Start-Stop, when you press the 'PRESS START' button, how can you be sure that the 'STOP' light has come on? How can we be sure that anything happens or exists if we do not experience it directly?
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