Strange.

You become what you set out to destroy. Hurt by people I trusted and scarred due to there lies and assumptions born from from damaged minds. All the photographs in this project document Characters and places that are scenes of memorable local events in Grange park history, murders, drug overdoses, crimes and lives lost on the estate with a strong symbolic narrative of superstition that speaks through lingering ghosts of past events affecting the future, deja-vu, omens and portents that ultimately aligns to the birth of the council estate along to its current problems and a personally significant intimate story.

A hidden world not everyone is exposed to.

I hope to ultimately bring a window of reality through which the audience can see truths they would otherwise be blind to highlight how areas of social segregation with decreased social mobility cause deprivation that promote undesirable negative behaviours. These behaviours create a mindset of disassociation which continues a vicious circle of cyclical violence and isolation.

When and how was this vicious circle allowed to develop? What, if anything, does the council do to improve the situation? How do I think some of the people living there could be helped?

There are some positive but unfortunately also many negative social behaviours adapted to survive in this specific isolated environment.

This vicious circle has been developed through a lack of social mobility. Ultimately the issue at its core is about visibility.

All the symbolization in my work has an eerily predictive element.

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