Olympia

'All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.' (Susan Sontag)

'Olympia' was produced on 28th October 2007, made by way of a distraction from the trauma of the process of managed miscarriage. The composition of the images reflect the experience, static elements represent the silence and the passing of time, whilst the colour and saturation reflect the oppressive nature of the room. They offer an accurate narrative of the experience and invite the viewer to consider the trauma of the missing hours between 10.04 and 16.51.

These images not only represent 'that-has-been' but are also a poignant reminder of 'that which never was'. The photographs continue to insist the absence and loss of not only that day but of the subsequent losses experienced, they are both melancholic and cathartic.