Illusions of Self explores the ways in which we come to inhabit everyday spaces, objects and minds. 

I used my camera and image-making to reflect on the presence embedded within the untouched domesticity of my mother’s home after her death. My photobook draws together images of these rooms and possessions, their gradual deterioration and disappearance with photomontages that incorporate archival material. 

The embedded photomontages reflect on the ways in which traces of the seen, unseen and hidden can come to inhabit us, coalescing in momentary and persistent fusions, melancholic speculations and darker agitations.