‘Stoned in Melanchol’ was born from an insatiable hunger for a world beyond the monotony of small-town life. I began making photographs as a way of projecting the cinematic world in my head on to the landscape before me, thereby creating a means in which I could live vicariously through my work.
Whilst the series began as a form of escapism, the photographs and their threads of narrative developed into a much broader and on-going story; ‘Stoned in Melanchol’ delves into ideas of subculture and identity, the exploration of isolation as well as the solace in unity, and ultimately, the search for the beauty in the mundane.
