caroline thake

My work primarily explores themes of culture, civilisation and the cityscape. I am interested in the collective environments we build for ourselves and their relation to the natural world, time and change. I am interested in cities as sites of abundance of humanity, each one a unique cocktail of culture, geography and histories, each in a state of constant change.

 

I am concerned with the extremes and edges of any give media, my work is an exploration of the potential of media and also a mapping of limitations. I often use layering processes which have the effect of  pushing the visual field towards saturation, to the limits of representation. This takes my imagery beyond documentation and into the fractured realms of memory and dream. The resulting imagery is filled with loops, paradox and dead ends.