Fable of the Bees, 2019
Written over 300 years ago, Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees addressed the rise of consumer culture in the West, warning of its hedonistic fate, and the collapse of the virtuous mind.
This postgraduate final project visualises our incessant desire to own ‘the new'. As society moves from necessity to excess, we begin to form our identity by the belongings we surround ourselves with, rather than from formative places, people, and ideas. This grid of nine individual photographs depicts the stripping back of identity and poses the question: what is left of us when we are left with nothing?
