Hewitt's Heap

The photographic image of the series "Hewitt's Heap" uses my own house in London, which when moving in, appeared to be inhabited, if not by the former occupants in their physical form but by their ghosts (the Hewitt family had left all their possessions and furniture behind). The image represents the house as a mysterious space embodying strangely animated furniture.
The photograph explores the question of photography as a specific medium: chairs, wardrobes and cabinets become transformed and abstracted by the application of acidic chemicals onto the surface of the photographic negative in an attempt to metaphorically destroy the presence of the former occupants of my house. The chemicals literally and materially inscribe themselves into the photographic negative and respectively the image, determining the images’ final appearance. The series presents photographic images as a space to be constantly redefined, between construction and chance, concrete visibility and open significance.