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Within my work I am interested in the systems and meaning structures that inform our understanding of the world. Although my work is based within an interest in Philosophy and Science I use these discourses as a basis for my own ideologies, allowing me to explore the hierarchies of information through a much more idiosyncratic point of view. In my work, the Meta-narratives of Science, Philosophy and Art become relics of universal truth. While modernism may act as a giant arrow pointing to the attainment of absolute truth, post-modernism fractures this linearity leaving truth and meaning in a much more de-centred position. Through a reflexive practise I intend my work to question the centre of truth itself, appropriating and manipulating objects so that they, in some cases literally bend back on themselves; showing their position within the meaning structure of the world which creates them. Although there is a seriousness in my artistic endeavours, I intend to show an absurdness in the individuals attempt to produce truth and meaning, and it is the contradictions between ideas of the centred self and the de-centred world where I would like my work to exist.
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