Visual Studies / 002

Signs, Gaze & Simulation

Melbourne and New York City

2022–2024

7 images

Psychic City

The eye as a conduit between perception and the city.

Psychic City follows eyes across bodies, signs, patches, murals and spiritual symbols. Repetition turns the eye from an organ into a charged urban motif.

Each appearance carries a different relation to vision. Some eyes look back; others promise surveillance, protection, intuition or access to what remains hidden. The photographs do not collapse these meanings into one symbol. They ask why the eye so readily gathers ideas about consciousness and power.

The series maps the distance between biological sight, the social exchange of the gaze and the desire to perceive beyond surfaces. In the city, looking is never one-directional. To see is also to enter a field in which one may be seen.

  • The Picture Looks Back

    The Picture Looks Back

    Every subject returns the camera’s gaze, turning scrutiny back on the viewer and questioning how we judge vulnerability, privacy, dignity and agency.

  • Pairs: Repetition and Différance

    Pairs: Repetition and Différance

    A photographic sequence exploring how repetition, relation and différance produce meaning between images.

  • Earworm

    Earworm

    Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.

  • Walking Wounded

    Walking Wounded

    Frailty, resilience, and the complex emotions triggered by witnessing trauma in public spaces.

  • Tokyo After Dark
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    Tokyo After Dark

    Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.

  • The Father

    The Father

    A photographic study of how fatherhood becomes visible in public through carrying, protection, resemblance, discipline and control.