My colour photographs attempt to depict society's psychological imprint on its environment combining digital technology with my own personal reflection.

While staying in China it was important to me to produce work which could relate to a Chinese audience. Unable to speak, read or understand any Chinese this was going to prove difficult. Impressions of my surroundings preoccupied me. Endless "communist-style", apartment blocks seemed an unavoidable reference. Practically all city living seemed to take place in almost identical high-rise blocks, many with barred windows. The buildings reminded me of uniforms, and the prescribed compartmentalisation determined by the country's communist administration.

In England, my process of making art is very analytical and conceptual, and the response I received in China focused more on the "feeling" the work emitted, so I found myself involved in a totally different discourse to the one I am used to back home. In retrospect these sentiments have now become major considerations for me and represent the biggest influence on my work in response to the residency.

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