Hotel Bedroom

Hotel Bedroom is one of a series of works dealing with the subject of Tourism. Influenced by photography and film yet executed from life, the images in the series often focus on transition spaces like hotel bedrooms and lobbies, spaces designed to offer temporary insulation from the unforeseen and the unfamiliar, when man’s relationship with place has never been more fragile and temporary.

Travelling can be a voyage of renewal, free of the histories we carry at home, a kind of temporary rebirth of our innocence. But travelling can also be a short cut to alienation, the unattached individuals lost in the act of sightseeing, cut off from their familiar home surroundings. The symbolic nature of the cots can therefore be read ambiguously. They can be seen on one level as sheltering devices shielding their occupants from the surrounding transience but metaphorically, they can represent the rebirth of the innocence attained through travelling or be seen as a restrictive device, severing/alienating their occupants from the immediate environment.