2021

Ideally, Medication will be viewed as a continuation from As Expressed.

Injecting a solution made from my daily medications (including caffeine, a substance in which I am dependant) to distort Polaroid prints, 
MEDICATION attempts to visualise my experience with chronic depression and suicidal thoughts.
Ironically, the distortion caused by the medicinal solution, is representative of what the individual medications treat and ward off.
For many years, as an artist, I have avoided this subject. Due to an amalgamation of shame, denial and even avoiding the cliché. 
This collection of images represents my confrontation and acceptance with my psychological conditions, and that they do, and always will, need to be managed with medication. 

Frustrated with performative, stereotypical, and sometimes even romantic explorations/demonstrations found throughout history by image makers (and scientists), MEDICATION approaches the illustration of (albeit mine) mental illness from the internal perspective. Rather than what it should look like, this body of work addresses the how.
Inspired by practitioners that push the abilities of the photographic medium and those working with pharmaceuticals, to create chaotic or fractured visuals, these images are a window into the depressive episode in which they were made.

NB: This work should not be viewed, or used, as a criticism or support for medicating mental illness. That choice is individual to the patient