Scott Sandford
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Photography is a trick of the mind.
My work seeks to explore the liminal space between the nature of what is known or expected and what is actually seen; exploring this paradoxical expectation of a photograph to represent a location in the world - but which instead provides an abstract geometric field that cannot be understood with our existing knowledge of the world from which it is derived.
In this state, the viewer is able to consider other possible meanings from the fragmented elements presented to them and become aware of how their perception engages with the visual field. Not to reinforce their signification, which is conditioned by society to order and control, but to dislocate them so that they may be seen for what they are and not what they are meant to be.
If I succeed, then the viewer may see themselves seeing in an unconditioned way and perhaps extend their unconditioned gaze to the people and the world around them.