Degree Show 2025

Here you are started as a live research project exploring what happens when a photo is reinterpreted through painting over and over. Inspired by Hito Steyerl’s In defense of the poor image, the project examined whether repetition would cause the image to gain fluency or break down. Each new painting in the series of five was based on a photograph of the previous one. As the image shifted from one painting to the next, the castle’s position seemed to change, the waterline wavered like a tide, and the sky’s colour drifted from evoking time of day to something more abstract, as if the image had taken on a life of its own. My method became a loop, eyes jumping between the photo and the previous paintings, blurring the line between remembering, imagining, and looking; echoing the way social media reshapes our perception and recall.