Artist Statement

Artist statement.

My current practice evolves around an on going state of living between places. What does it mean to be here, but not from here? Capturing inhabited spaces without the inhabitant separates the mundane and ordinary details, allowing them to stand-alone. The details of a house that go by unnoticed in our day-to-day lives echoes hints of what makes a home. While being stripped away between two places has put me on a journey of a search for a single place that is reflective of home. Thus, the uncertainty of my locality, with the physical and the mental existences being separated into two different places, allows them to converge and become one. The video is an intertwined construction of these two different places that have come together as one. It has been filmed through a course of movement from one place to the other. The imagery that comes from London is from the house that I live in, while ones of Armenia demonstrate a range of different places that is reflect of the way I feel about the place as a whole. The sound has been recorded separately from both places, from key events in Armenia that are reflective of our identity as a nation to ordinary sounds that go by unnoticed, to similar sounds such as of an elevator or a train. Once the material is recorded, it is 'collaged' together, in the same manner as a painting is painted. There is also a constant presence of light, which is at times moving faster than at others. The light and shadow, which is a natural detail that is present at both places, is one that I have focused on. The changing of the light enhances the colors in different ways, distinctive of the specific space and place, enhancing the ‘ordinary’ details. As Aaron Rose once said, “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary”.