Romanticising the mundane, moments of the everyday are etched and printed using second-hand CDs and Tetrapak packaging from personal life and charity shops in Leeds. Fixating on everyday peculiarities such as a foamy shower drain, detailed observations of close-up subject matter are intricately engraved. Isolated from their initial context, they are transformed from involuntary interactions that are briefly glanced at into the centre of attention.

Drawn to the closeness with subject matter, visual contact is indicated through perceiving the circle as a lens towards the ordinary and the sublime, reflecting on the familiarity with microscopic and faraway objects. Echoing a sense of unfamiliarity from the subject matter’s distorted scale, or remnants of texture left behind by the protrusions of etching boards, the print’s depth is focused on, searching for an underlying meaning. This failure to do so acknowledges the temporality of the mundane and the unknown past life of the second-hand.

Inspired by Romantic Conceptualism, a tension is faced between sincerity and levity, playing with the status and emotional connection of an artwork while devoting extensive care and labour to its process, reaching for the unattainable.