I am currently working on two series of work. One is titled "Bob's World" in which I use appropriated writings to explore language. The other is titled "Mnemonmnesia" and these works pertain to memory.

Both series are generated from my photographic work which is then manipulated in a computer, laminated with a UV protective film onto formica or board and set into industrial ready-made objects.

In the "Bob's World" series I present isolated and repeated words, attempting to deconstruct language and reference Derrida's subversive way of reading texts, concentrating on what is referred to as the textuality - or how the text is read as opposed to what it means.

The Platonic preference for speech over writing having its origin in the association of speech with 'presence' and writing with 'absence', and the consequential connotation of 'speech/presence' being male and 'writing/absence' being female, it is important to me that the appropriated writings I use are done by a man and that I am female. This aspect of gender led me to explore the concept of self and lack of identification within the work as displacement occurs at several different levels. Firstly, the work utilises writing which is perceived as a sign of a sign i.e. already one step away from the origin - the thought. Secondly, this sign of a sign is placed within what can be perceived as yet another language of signs - that of art. Thirdly, there is the aspect of quotation in the work, or what the theatre refers to as 'third person acting', in other words the quoting of a character's expressions of feeling and emotion, which is often perceived as being the result of a radical absence of the self.

The works relating to memory are all named Mnemonmnesia and this title derives from Mnemon - an aide to Achilles who was slain by him for forgetting to remind him never to kill a child of Apollo and -mnesia which is a combining form denoting a certain type of memory, i.e. 'amnesia' - no memory. I put the two together to say these peices are about 'remembering to remember'.

To summarise, in my work I try to set up a dialogue between the content of the images and the metaphoric implications of the industrial objects within which they are placed.