During my last Semester studying Fine Art at the University of Chichester, I would've classed myself as purely a painter and Polaroid artist. I was interested in the juxtaposition of painting particularly and Polaroids - the image that comes out of the Polaroid was really something special, I really enjoyed the surprise - the broken images and twisted faces. The unreliability of the Polaroid in my broken camera - its beauty being the unstructured, mechanic, developing liquid creating its own unique amorphous artworks. I would wonder however, does my artwork have to have intrinsic or objective meaning? Couldn't it be just about process, color and beauty? Just something to excite the senses! It was all about chance, exposure and manipulation.

Originally I was interested in what people thought about small Polaroids, however people would proclaim, "make them bigger!" So I started to make my own research just on Polaroids and found this article,

"Seeing things:Ghost Polaroids",

By Candice Winters.

A woman who claims to see ghosts and spirits through a range of Polaroids dating back from the 1990's, before the times of Photoshop and digital editing. "A mystical, hazy experience / substance permits the confines of the pictures that would otherwise be normal in construction". She believes they that leave you questioning your believes about the afterlife. The so called ghost would leave messages in the Polaroids in English and Latin.

This is a lose article to  connect with my work, for I have no interest to persuade the world of ghosts and different life forms, but just the article really made me realize the impact of Polaroid on people. Its such an underused form of art. Especially the idea of abstract photography. When I research it, nothing really tends to come up. So my mission was to make this form of art a lot more apparent to the world.

A couple of my Polaroids started to show people and whatever object I happened to be pointing the camera at (this usually never happened, as I have a broken camera and I was a keen lover of photo manipulation so this would complete destroy the photo in an abstract haze) - these Polaroids made me become interested in the human form, Could I work with these forms in an abstract way as well? My head was feeling scrambled with all these new ideas - abstraction has always been a big thing to me but these ghostly figures that I was creating due to my manipulation was terribly interesting.

These are a few of my Polaroids, some manipulated.`