Artist Statement

I want to try and push the way people thinks about photography, to make it more than a means of representation. I focused on form and colour ignoring the subject matter completely and trying to create a beautiful image where the beauty isn’t led by the subject. This work explores ideas of photo therapy creating pictures in response to the psychiatric criteria of borderline personality disorder. It was important to me to display the emotion behind these criteria instead of creating literal depictions of them. The aim of this work is to try and tackle the stigma surrounding BPD and to try and create understanding for sufferers.