Common thought perceives of the past as behind us, and the future as before us. Differing ancient cultures however thought of the past as in front of you, and the future as behind you…the past is known, it is laid out in front of you to see, while the future is not known and is therefore hidden behind you…

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At its core, my research into digital printmaking and resulting artwork interrogates the resulting loss of the patina and presence of the ‘object’ when working with the digital medium. The absence (death) of my subject’s…unidentified children (foundlings) from early 1900’s discarded glass plate negatives…are used to resonate and ‘re-story’ the infancy of the digital medium in artistic production. Having previously worked as a digital restorer on the negatives…removing the residue of the objects life, the so called ‘imperfections’…I am now working from these digital scans and seeking to re-embody the  digital image by interrogating its structure and reinstating it as a (hand crafted) physical object via the development of multi-layered digital prints.

Employing the notion of ‘disembodiment’ to address the amputation that occurs when working with the digital medium as a creative tool from both a physical and aesthetically perspective, my hauntological inspired reconstruction and ‘re-storying’ of the foundlings via the merging and multi-layering of spectres of the past and present, looks forward to the past in evoking the nostalgic spectres of the digital prints potential but unknown future, whilst also indirectly alluding to concurrent social concerns pertaining to the digital age…with current specific focus relating to the (digital) archive and what has been currently and potentially lost through the digital death of the lived object.