SIMON DOW
'MISSING PERSON S'



Being an adopted one, with no original ‘anchor’ as such, I am drawn to a sense of what is missing, to those who seem to have ‘gone missing’. We don’t have to have actually disappeared to go missing, as this can happen within.
There is, perhaps, sometimes this felt sense of something vaguely out of focus or of a displacement.
I have worked to create a sense of a nostalgic, unspoken mystery, perhaps a melancholy. A map without directions. It is like something you can’t quite put your finger on but is somehow unsettling.
I have a famously poor sense of direction, of being nowhere in particular and yet being everywhere as well. A disorientation that is simply being somewhere without a mooring to a particular pinned location.

There, but not there.

Zero reference point.

These pictures are layered, as is our experience of
being human.

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