Depoliticization of the church

Collage Photos

Site Photos

Contradicting Bible Quotes Collage

Edited Photos From Dark Room

Photo Models

Depoliticization of the church:

The new site for our current project is St Mildreds Church Canterbury. When asked to create drawings and models I decided to take a personal stance by looking at how I see churchs as a representation of war, conflict, pain and hypocrisy. I started by creating images that represent this by a. overlapping images of conflict with the church and b. placing bible texts that conflict with historical events (in my case I looked at the events of the Northern Ireland trouble as I was raised as I had a Catholic upbringing and have a large Irish family) I placed the text over 'typical' characteristics of a church such as the pointed roof, crucifix symbols, stained glass windows and gravestones.

My next step was to use film photography and develop a series of photographs in the dark room that begin to 'rub out' these typical aspects of a church. It is here I begin the Depoliticization of the church.

Following the rubbing out of photographs I began to slice the building cutting it into sections depending on certain materials and characteristics I then rearranged these into models quite aggressively creating a 'new' church something that I could no longer associate with the historical events linked to religion.