Frank McCauley My work investigates the distortions of language and logic, by looking at ways in which technology can influence perception. It does this by exploring instinct and irrational comprehension. When I take the everyday person as my subject it is put through a process in which its features are distorted, suppressed, or intensified in the service of expressing something beneath or behind the observable surface. That is, something which is best implied in the slippage between the recognizable and what is unexplained or mysterious. In my work there exists a fascination with the relationships between private and public, reality and fiction, object and representation, and also the dynamic interplay between the individual and structures or masses. Some of my processes include: disrupting narrative flow, piling up disjointed fragments, incorporating references to prior images and texts, isolating figures to emphasize their role as personifications of concepts, and using images with multiple associations to draw attention to many layers of meaning and the necessity of interpretation. All these means serve to frustrate a straightforward reception of the image, which would consume the work for the story told, or the information conveyed. frankmccauley.com.htmlfrankmccauley.com.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1