Transcience:Shadows

Leading on from this interest in preservation, I began to think of other things or phenomena that are also impossible to capture. I have always been intrigued by light and the subtle changes of shadows, their transcience. Shadows seem to represent the dichotomy between stillness and calm, and a potential movement and change. No shadow is ever exactly the same.

I began to photograph shadows everywhere I went, collecting them, this process made me aware to the subtle changes of light that I would usually bypass. However, it began to frustrate me that although I had these images, they were merely recordings, they did not replicate the time the place or the emotion that came from that shadow. I decided that I would experiment with different materials to try and recreate the forms of light and dark and through this, inevitably, the impossibility of making a shadow something tangible.