LEFT: At Arm�s Length, 3.54mins Hi 8 video Transferred onto DVD, Monitor based, 2000. RIGHT: Ladies and Gentlemen, 3.40mins DVD loop, Monitor based, 2001.

Time, therefore, plays a key role in my work, both with my relationship to the nature of recording the event, and my placing of the viewer in relation to it. With my work, I am attempting to collapse the space between the imaginary and the real, where the illusory; those devices which are perceived on initial viewing to seduce the viewer into the act of looking, (by either historical references to painting or the spectacle) are interrupted and subverted. Through the sound of a breath or the subject looking out at the viewer, as if ' looking back' beyond the confines of the 'frame', into their personal space. The distance between the image and the viewer shifts, re-siting the nature of the spectacle back to the viewer. The aspect of my practice, which lies in a questioning of the nature of identity, is explored through the representation of the signs of the masculine and feminine within the image. I am fascinated by the limits placed on the defining of the subject and by a questioning of such certainties within the representation of the self and other or self as other. A fluctuation between the polarities of the passive and active states of the subject, are used to both seduce and repel.

Whether I am using contained and fragmented bodies, appearing dead, or being Angels and Devils.It is in these symbolic representations of death that I am attempting to question and explore my relationship to mortality and the boundaries which define the space between life and death.