Deficient Relations is a group of work that speaks of my belief that one person can never fully know another, or even themselves. One’s identity cannot be described simply by what they like, what they wear, what they do etc, but it is their inner core – something that is indescribable. In these pictures I’ve created barriers between the subject and myself. The identities of the subjects are a mystery to the viewer, often faceless and always nameless.
Plato states in his Symposium that people were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. This brings us to the widespread belief that soulmates exist; that there is one person in the world who will complete another. If this is true, then we must not think of ourselves as a whole being, and one’s identity can only be realized once they have found this missing piece. Though, if we cannot recognize our own identity, how could it be possible to recognize the missing part of it, and for that matter anyone else’s?
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