Exhibition with Morwenna Kearsly at Coburg House Studios and Gallery. “An Alternative” was a collaborative undertaking that enabled me to experiment with the illusionary effects of urban street lighting. From the outset of this project, I took an abstract approach. The resulting images suggest a subterranean world, deep under the sea, in which fantastic, fluorescent creatures inhabit an otherwise dark environment. Photographing in this way, the material world was rendered abstract, alive and alien, so that everyday nocturnal scenes of streetlights, fireworks and even the moon casting its glow upon Edinburgh’s beech suburb of Portobello became distorted to look like documentary images from science or nature.