Collectisfaction
Bedtimes
My daughter’s bedtimes since 26.8.22
Daily photo series, Ongoing
I am interested in the practice of collecting and ordering items by category, date or visual similarity as a regulatory practice for neuro-divergent brain processes. There is a particular type of satisfaction to be gained from this practice, which I’m calling collectisfaction.
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These projects explore ideas to do with repetition, ritual, continuity and compulsive ordering as self-regulation.
Tea
My cups of tea since 6.8.2021
Photo series, Ongoing
Protests
Pictures of protests collected from newspapers and magazines, sewn together in square panels.
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2020 - Present
Little Guys
My daughter’s collections of ‘little guys’ (emojis) that she puts together in a word document on my phone. She started doing them during lockdown when she was four years old, and it became part of her morning routine to make a new section every day.
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Digital collection, 2021 - Present
Captcha
CAPTCHA is an acronym that stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.
In this collection, I am interested in the use of abstraction as a tool capable of fooling computer recognition software but not human perception, and the idea of randomness in a digital context.
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Digital collection of text-based CAPTCHA image samples. Each image was collected from captcha.com
Likes
All my likes in 2023.
This piece is about the addictive, psychological drive to ‘collect’ approval as if it is a form of wealth.
I’m interested in the shifting metrics we use to measure value as a culture; the way something as subjective as ‘liking’ has become the basis for a warped kind of currency made up of these small symbols of approval, with a silent implication that we’re supposed to collect as many as possible.
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Digital collection of all the accounts that liked my Instagram content in 2023.
One More
A collection of cigarette ends from rollies I smoked before I quit. Each one is inscribed with the letters ONE MORE. This piece is about addiction, repetition and the fickle nature of will-power.
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Cigarette ends mounted on board, 2013 - 2014
Other Collections
QR codes, bread labels, washi tape packaging, banana stickers, Philippa Perry’s portrait from her newspaper column. Some of my collections are sewn together because they are part of the Chronic Mnemonics.
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Various mixed media, 2010 - Present
