36 + 8 Polaroids.

"Two years ago I began taking photographs using analog processes. The Polaroid images you see in the book (a very small collection of the hundred of Polaroids I have made) are self portraits which have been damaged as they were being made. Initially I thought the work was about visualising the experience of pain. I live with hypermobile, ehlers-danlos syndrome and fibromyalgia which causes me constant pain and although my illness does not define who I am it does impact my life every day. As I have continued the experiments - digging through the many layers of pain like an archaeologist digs through the earth to uncover relics - I have realised that this project is actually about trauma and the physical pain that has come from it. The act of creating these images has allowed me understand my history, to sit with it, bring it to the surface and exorcise it from me into the images I make. An act of catharsis and ultimately of healing and hope."--Statement provided by artist.