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This series centers on a collection of personal photographs taken in South Africa in 1948—the pivotal year of the parliamentary election that marked a devastating turning point in the nation's history. The artist extracts and enlarges the most physically distressed sections of these archival snapshots, blowing them up to the actual scale of the domestic spaces and everyday objects they depict. This fragmented imagery is physically locked into place by a welded steel polygon mesh, which materializes a digitized 3D CAD representation of the original crumpled paper photograph.
By fusing historic image with raw industrial form, these sculptural works function as dual lenses. They peer into the past through autobiographical fragments, while remaining anchored in the present through their high-tech, digitally derived construction. This material tension allows the work to question how images and objects accumulate and strip away meaning within our contemporary, screen-mediated culture.