I am often curious about areas and locations in life that I will never be able to see. I ponder the idea of the out of bounds and liminal spaces. It has grown into this obsession and observation of areas that lead around the corner and fixation of what happens in the background. I draw parallels to the idea of liminal spaces, which often feel unreal and eerie in nature.

There is a digital feeling to these places, something otherworldly and harrowing, as it is if you have entered an alternate reality where nothing feels like it exists. It is as if you could walk around the corner and nothing would be there. It raises the question of what does nothing even look like if it were to manifest itself. It is my intention to make the viewer ask questions instead of giving answers. I want the viewer to ask the question, what exists beyond the photograph and where these places lead to, if anywhere at all.

There is also the idea of areas that don’t depict a place that has routes that lead to other places to explore. Perhaps there is nowhere spaces and liminal spaces that have no entrance or exit. It exists as a place of entrapment. As a single instance in the out of bounds. There is no way in and no way out.

These photographs represent a number of philosophies to me such as Hauntology, Existentialism and Simulation Theory. They are also inspired by the idea that there is only a finite area ever designed in video games and what happens when someone playing a video game manages to find their way out of bounds. What exists in the areas that are not designed and in the void. My photographs represent this but I have taken the idea into the real world.

There is the constant theme of the void within my work, and often there are many areas that lead off in different directions depicted in my photographs. Do these places exist in the void? Or do they take you to it? Often my photographs have allusions to something more. More areas that will never be seen by the viewer. They can only ever think about where these areas lead to, instilling the idea of exploration into the void. Only ever to ponder the idea of what could be there.

There is a curiosity of what exists outside of the frame. A photograph is always curated to depict something, so it is impossible to photograph nothing unless you don’t take a photograph at all. How does one depict the idea of nothing but at the same time take a photograph? It is questions like these that I find fascinating and I find myself chasing the idea constantly. But there is also places that make the viewer wonder. Like areas behind windows and doors. Glimpses of something that can look familiar, yet strange in the viewer’s eyes.

The main focus is never what lays directly on front of the viewer. It is always the areas they can barely just about see, like rooftops in the distance or areas that lead around corners. Distant shapes lurking in the background that could be anything or nothing. So many possibilities yet they are all out of reach.

Windows on second story buildings and lights far off in the distance suggest the idea of invisible spaces. The photograph acts as a frame to house small things like this, that attention is never drawn to. The lack of attention and focus on these places is what drives curiosity towards them. A hint of something out of frame.

At the end lies a juxtaposition and hopefully questions. The absence of any sort of living things within these photographs until now. Only to appear at the end itself. Suggesting that the presence has been there the entire time, yet never seen, perhaps personifying the very idea of an out of bounds space, that they are there but invisible. A faint smile can maybe be seen? Yet it is faint and disappearing. The ever looming void has finally consumed and caught up to us. The viewer is able to peak into an alternate reality and this ghostly, blurry image represents this. Perhaps he realizes that he is stuck forever to roam these spaces that lead to nowhere. Forever trapped in the out of bounds and nonexistence.