I developed this project after discovering an area of ruined towns in Sicily. They were destroyed by a series of earthquakes in 1968 and subsequently abandoned.

I felt a strong connection, as if I had been in that earthquake and experienced the trauma of sudden loss and displacement myself.

I carry with me an inherent trauma experienced by close family members at the hand of the Nazis. Even though this wasn't my own experience, it instilled in me a perpetual feeling of loss. This could well be a case of epigenetic inheritance.

My project concentrates on a set of negatives which I found among the debris of the disaster zone. Some images reveal traces of the portrayed people, others have been transformed into rather intriguing abstract pictures. Nature has scratched and drawn and painted onto them, playing with the represented people, cutting right through their bodies and shrouding them in mist.

'Seismic Shift' aims to draw the viewer into a world of discovery, with some uncertain, contradicting, dark, maybe even scary elements and to make sense of them in their own way, to feel rather than understand what happens when your world changes to something hardly recognizable and how to try and cope with it, accepting change and maybe discovering something interesting, something positive, some unexpected beauty.

The work is divided into five separate image sections with a separate text spread. The viewer is encouraged to build sequences and compositions with the pages and spreads, creating individual connexions.