Photography

Gallery 2024

A photo gallery created for my third semester Photography class. Each student had to pick a theme for their gallery, so I decided to make all my images something surreal.

Several figurines of video game character Kirby posed around a Nintendo 3DS. Kirby's super star is crashed into the back of the Nintendo 3DS.

The battery in my Nintendo 3DS had started to swell, so after I took out the battery, I decided to set up this scene using some Kirby figures from a stacking game.

A wooden mannequin hand rising from the log of a cut down tree.

My family cut down the trees that had been in my backyard since I was kid because they were old and dying. I have a collection of these wooden artist hands, so I thought of the idea of the old wood being reborn as something new.

A puppet of the White Rabbit from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with its head removed and a Queen of Hearts playing card in its mouth. A piece of red fabric is used to simulate blood.

A crime scene photo. The White Rabbit knew that the Queen of Hearts wouldn't be happy with him being late. Puppet originally from Cambrian Players' May 2022 adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Designed by Thomas Macdonald and built by Mary Davis.

A photograph of a ceramic head with 10-sided dice of various colours spilling out of the top.

When I used to play tabletop roleplaying games, I loved collecting new sets of colourful dice. The potential those dice provided were infinite, but the desire to buy more and more was quite the addiction.

A bathroom mirror with graffiti scrawled across it using makeup. A small skull sits on top.

Makeup carries a lot of dangers with it. You're either wearing too much, wearing too little, wearing it wrong, shouldn't be wearing it at all, etc.

A desk chair sitting in front of a whiteboard wall covered in marker text in the shape of a dark figure behind a person's silhouette.

I'd recently read Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, which features a creature that writes strange messages on the walls of a tower. I traced the outline of a classmate and started writing random phrases that came to mind on the whiteboard walls of a classroom.

A laundrey basket full of folded clothes, with a model of human teeth hiding in the sleeve of a sweater.

I had braces when I was younger and recently found the mould of my teeth from that early visit to the orthodontist. I wanted to take a photo of the teeth hiding somewhere, and this basket of clothes seemed like a nice spot for something to lurk.

A purple jacket lying on a couch in the shape of a lounging figure, with fake flowers in place of limbs and head.

In my college's film department, I was drawn to a mannequin torso hanging in the studio's costume room. Using a coat from that room and a box of fake flowers from props, I spent some time in the studio's living room set creating a peaceful scene.

A construction worker's hard hat and boot encased in concrete.

When my friends and I came across this scene, we assumed that an accident must have happened. But a construction worker later told me that, upon retiring, the founder of this construction company had asked for his old boots and helmet to be thrown into the concrete as tribute.