Ho Tam Press Gallery

They haunted me for years before I could finally place them… small, darkly coloured, murky photographs of the night sky.

“…contrary to the opinion of previous scholarship, the second half of Rosso’s career was dedicated to the achievement of his artistic goals through the creative medium of photography.” Francesco Bacci

Despite our strategies to bridge the visual gap between the photograph and the thing being photographed, that distance stubbornly remains…

“you don’t have any ideas, you start making work without an idea, I always have an idea before I begin making a piece”

Part of my attraction to the work is that it could not survive, and now only exists in relatively few murky black and white photographs that I peer into in an attempt to reconstruct it in my mind.

I consider  Morandi in his bedroom, painting images of bottles in Bologna while fascists take hold of Italy and think about about the relevance and significance of my ‘practice’. Adopting…