Over the last two years I have acquired an abundance of wedding invitations and thank you cards and I began to notice just how many of the people that surround me were getting hitched. I was prompted to produce work about marriage, the wedding ceremony and celebrations and I have employed some of these wedding artifacts in the construction of my photographs. In making these works I have researched the history of some of the traditional symbols associated with marriage and the wedding ceremony and have incorporated them in the work. I have sought to reveal marriage symbols as commodified objects removed from the significance they are intended to portray. For instance, the diamond ring has replaced the humble thimble through commercial opportunism; the swan, traditionally a symbol of fidelity and life-long commitment, has been found in recent research to be a promiscuous bird.
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