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An Epiphany With Space marked a significant turning point in the development of my artistic practice.

The installation transformed photography from an image viewed on a wall into an immersive experience. A large suspended translucent screen became both image and architectural space. As visitors stepped between the projector and the screen, their silhouette merged with the projected figure, dissolving the distinction between observer and artwork. Whispered voices, shifting light, and subtle movement created an environment that encouraged stillness, reflection, and an awareness of one's own presence within the work.

Looking back now, I recognise that this installation introduced a question that has quietly remained at the heart of my practice:

How can an artwork create a moment of presence—a point to leap off from for the viewer?

Whether working with installation, photography, moving image, or more recent digital processes, I continue to explore how images can interrupt habitual ways of seeing and invite viewers into a more attentive experience of the present moment. Rather than presenting fixed meanings, the work seeks to create an opening—a space where each viewer can bring their own perceptions, memories, and lived experience into dialogue with the artwork.

Viewed today, An Epiphany With Space feels less like an isolated installation and more like the beginning of a continuing conversation.

The visual language has evolved, moving through works such as Gateways, Changing Spaces, and Evolution, yet the underlying enquiry has remained remarkably consistent. Each project asks, in its own way, how an artwork might shift awareness, transform perception, and create the conditions for presence.

Created during a period of research spanning my Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) and later Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography), the installation brought together long-standing interests in photography, perception, consciousness, and our experience of space. These investigations built upon an earlier foundation established during my Bachelor of Visual Arts, where I majored in Photography, and became the beginning of an enquiry that continues to shape my work today and the moment my practice found its enduring question.

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