Mise-en-scène

Only when I am convinced it is a feeling I cannot shake, am I then dragged to the present to meet the frame. My congregation of objects find their existence, allowing for a brief moment of euphoria before it all returns to the meaningless.’ From the project Mise-en-scène Using the traditional medium of film, I create a collection of works that enter the realm of cinema and it's relationship with the still image. Familiar objects are strategically placed and elevated in the mise-en-scène. Each image is a fictional fragment with enigmatic details that are suspended. There are no middles with no beginnings or endings, but a hinge point of narrative. I want to bring a discourse we have with objects and create an encounter that arises comfortingly familiar scenes but yet stills feels unfamiliar to us. Staging, shooting, processing, printing This is the rhythm of my practice that takes hold of me to the point of obsession. Cinema and theory have created the base layer of my ideas flooding my senses with words and imagery that invoke images of my own imaginative scenes that I must create a photograph.