The Visible Unknown
This is an ongoing project. New images will be added as the work continues to evolve and expand.
This project explores the spaces where vision loosens its grip. Rooted in my lived experience with keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition which distorts light and makes sharp focus increasingly difficult, the work does not attempt to reproduce impaired sight but instead expands on its emotional and perceptual implications. Each photograph is made deliberately out of focus, reducing the world to softened shapes and drifting colour, to ask what remains when clarity is no longer the priority.
By removing detail, the images shift attention toward atmosphere, structure and the quiet pulse of presence. They echo the broader ethos of my practice: looking not for spectacle but for the understated poetry of everyday places and the subtle ways identity and perception shape the act of seeing.
These blurred studies sit between photography and sensation, offering images that must be felt as much as interpreted. They invite viewers to linger in ambiguity to recognise form before meaning and to consider how much of our experience is built from impressions rather than facts.
At its core, the project asks a simple but open question. When clarity falls away what truths surface in its absence?
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Although keratoconus informs the origins of this project, the images do not attempt to mimic my eyesight. My everyday vision contains distortion, softness and shifting clarity, but it is still anchored in the recognisable world. These photographs push far beyond that threshold. The extreme blur is a conceptual tool not a clinical representation. It allows me to explore the emotional and sensory dimensions of seeing without the anchor of literal detail.
By exceeding what my eye can or cannot do, I am working toward a different question. What happens when vision becomes a felt experience rather than a descriptive one. What kind of truth can an image hold when it is freed from the requirement to be accurate. In this way, the project becomes less about sight and more about perception, vulnerability and the unstable territory between knowing and sensing.
