My degree project reflects on the intimacy, force and release found within human relationships. Through photography and moving image, I display complex, intricate scenarios that oscillate between the secretive and the voyeuristic. In these situational compositions, people who are closest to me can be seen dissolving into and detaching from one another.

I am interested in the inherent complexity of these states of transference. Relationships of contradiction, that lay between intimacy and competition. Symbiotic relationships where individuals dissolve in each other, creating something threatening but wonderful, something monstrous.

Using the medium of silent super 8 video, I have captured my previous lover and my current partner in the embrace of a wrestling match on a beach. They can be seen as one and the same as they clash, two symbiotic bodies in a struggle. Simultaneously working with and against each other, attracting and turning away.

Reflecting on my previous body of work, I discovered something seemingly unfathomable. I choose to call it untwinement. Untwinement is an active threat toward the metamorphic condition, preventing the subject’s own existence, as it terminates this state of being. Therefore, untwinement can never be achieved without a fundamental loss.