My work looks at fictional lands and generation histories, in the context of Cyprus. I photograph the ecosystems that inhabit the island, with particular interest in marginal and border land-scapes. Working in these contested spaces, is a means to challenge notions of identity and man-made borders by photographing plant species that grow across these spaces and ignore them, as a metaphor for future cooperation in Cyprus.

Working with black and white images, both from archives pre the imposition of the Green Line, and my own of contemporary land- scapes, I experiment in the darkroom using transparent paper on which I have my draw- ings and expose these to the surface of the image. The drawings are mimicking the lines seen in nature as well as behaving as a stitch that can metaphorically sew together the North and South, with the intention of creating a fictional land without borders. These images live both in the space of the gallery and in the pages of a hand stitched photo book.