Tryst (2009)
'TRYST' is a sequence of twleve black and white photographs depicting a woman seducing a partially dismantled piano. The exhibition addresses issues of desire, seduction, expectation and identity as a metaphor for expressing the relationships humans form with objects. The photographs are designed to comment upon the importance of the body in playing the piano and highlight the tendency to assume objects with human characteristics. This is presented within the framework of a seductive encounter where a physical unity is striven for between the animate (the body) and the inanimate (the piano). Seduction here is used to represent the conquest of attempting to master an instrument where the rules of interaction are unspoken - the ultimate outcome of which is failure and rejection.
'TRYST' was made in collaboration with the artist-photographer Chris Parker.