The Things We Notice

This collection explores the relationship between perception, environment and attention. Through a combination of photography, colour manipulation, fragmentation and abstraction, ordinary elements of the world are transformed into unfamiliar and considered compositions.

Nature and the built environment exist alongside one another throughout the series, creating a contrast between growth and decay, organic and artificial, permanence and change. Flowers, leaves and mushrooms are isolated and emphasised, while urban environments and architecture are often stripped of colour or fragmented.

Colour becomes a way of directing attention. By allowing particular colours to emerge from otherwise muted environments, the photographs question what we notice and why certain things demand our attention while others disappear into the background.

The manipulated portraits and fragmented environments extend this idea of perception further, suggesting that reality is never experienced completely objectively. We see the world through our own memories, emotions, surroundings and interpretations.

Ultimately, the collection is about slowing down and looking differently. It asks the viewer to reconsider the ordinary—to recognise beauty, change and meaning in places and objects that might otherwise be overlooked.