When photographing abandoned rooms I was interested in the structural arrangements and how they came into their own when most of the normal reference points were removed.

A furnished room will always be a specific room, whereas an empty room is a structure, a shape, a cubicle.

When I discovered those environments, often in semi-darkness, the otherness and oddness stood out. What might have been a living room or a bedroom didn't appear as such.

Looking at my photographs later, all the debris seemed to distract from what I had sensed initially. The messiness stood out so much that it became the first and strongest impression.

By mirroring the images the focus shifted again to the quaint uniqueness of the arrangements. The 'messiness' became less important, probably because it was offset by the neatness and symmetry created by the mirroring.