S U Z E   A D A M S

OTHER WORLDS

Still(ed) Lives, Other worlds

These photographs explore ambiguities (proximity and distance, subject and object, the familiar and the unfamiliar) by blurring boundaries between the material and immaterial. This results in a hovering tension that, as it attracts, recedes. There is something tangible, an insistent presence, to the images and yet, simultaneously, they pivot on the brink of existence. There remains a haunting absence of life which leaves a void, a disturbing echo of form – a memory or imprint of what was.

The photographs are inspired by my maternal ancestors; lives lived in the far north-western reaches of Scotland. If you like, these images are ‘still(ed) lives’. .

 

 

 

©Suze Adams 2015