This research project treats image as experience; and it has been driven by questions about the contemporary functions of image, and an interest in how the ways that we engage with image-making, change the kinds of images we make. 

This work explores the way images can be evocative of sensation and memories, and how they play on the viewer’s subjectivity and personal associations. Using snatches of pop songs and app and internet imagery, the selection of images and the video works that comprise Diamonds On The Inside experiment with filmic conventions used in social media and the unique set of feelings, associations and affects generated by these processes. The work aims to attune viewers to the constructed nature of our most liminal and mundane media creations, and to explore the emotional pitch generated by social media filmic conventions and the increasingly common way in which social media users amass images and footage from everyday life.