Drinking from Klein Bottles (2017/18)

This series explores man’s relationship with the artificially created. Using mathematical symbolism and natural form, it aims to highlight our intrinsic connection with technology. With the rise of AI (artificial intelligence) and its relevance in contemporary society, the work aims to display how inescapable technology really is even in the most natural setting imaginable – nude in an open field. The title stems from the weaving of two disparate parties – the act of drinking, a necessity for survival at the most base level, and the Klein Bottle, a non-orientable surface, one that cannot physically exist in its true form in our reality, only in four dimensional space which cannot ever tangibly be in our three dimensional world. By combining these two ideas, we create a physical and non-physical paradox in a set of images. The original photographs were taken with a 120mm film camera and then processed. I then scanned in the developed negatives and digitally edited the images using mathematical symbols and imagery. I believe this process works to further compound the paradoxical nature of the work as they are now both a physical and digital photograph. Therefore, this bares resemblance to how to the digital impacts on our physical lives.