fuzzyfocus

Drawing influence from persistent repetition in systems both natural and man-made, artist Fi Cameron, seeks to converge macro photographic imagery with the everyday bi-products of human habitation. Her photography abstracts the context in which subjects are viewed and shifts the focus to the detail of its texture, colour or form. Giclee prints on canvas and paper are lush composites of eclectic mixes of macro imagery, of man made and natural pattern.

Fi also works with a diverse sculptural medium: industrial scrap and incidental objects of everyday. She arranges and sculpts objects into hieroglyphic imagery; ordering plastics, metal bolts, sticks and wire into calligraphic alphabets that she likens to typographers fonts or code snips.

The work is iterative in nature, with the sculpted material often becoming the photographed subject, which is then digitally manipulated and further arranged into patterned compositions. The result is repetitious overlays of form that are paradoxically cryptic, but familiar.

Fi plays with concepts of ‘the metaphor’, pattern recognition, social adaptation of language, and the transitional nature of rapid technological change. She is influenced by themes of bio-technology, evolution, and adaption.