Dreaming of china seems an appropriate way to recollect my experiences there, for, from the moment we descended through the solid white cloud haze, there was a distinct feeling of entering into another world, somewhere very different from anywhere I had experienced before.

This combination of contrary feelings came to typify my experiences in China. Whenever any sense of what I felt to be 'reality' formed around me, there would always be something to subvert it, to remind me that I was somewhere I was completely unfamiliar with.

My subjects are the mundane, everyday occurrences that go mainly unnoticed. These peripheral instances act as testament to our temporality, whether they be the mark made by the coffee cup in the breakfast rush or the piles of rubbish on the pavement that build up and disappear in continuous cycles. Through the use of these commonplace subjects I aim to gently subvert the viewers preconceptions of time and reality and perhaps ultimately to bring about a quiet reawakening of the senses.

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