SETU Degree Show, Waterford Campus, May 2023.
In this body of work, my family, friends and I became the idiosyncratic strangers I’d like to see on the streets of quiet Waterford City and Tramore. Reminiscent of the easy-watch assembly cast of peculiar characters and anthropomorphic creatures you’d see online, this material is inspired by my adolescence in Tramore, which I excitedly documented and preserved in pixels. I dream of freeing all the clothed performing monkeys trapped inside my phone.
Looking towards Vaudevillian family bloggers (as well as genuinely having heaps of fun and making great memories with my amazing family), the efforts of this beach-side ‘content day’ and everyone’s talent for comedic timing felt well-represented through file degradation and intuitive layering of found-and-fed imagery, abstractions loosely inspired by my experience of post-seizure hallucinations from childhood epilepsy. Fun, confusing and chaotic fragments of the subconscious coalesce and congeal.
