Sign Language

• Photographer
  Margeaux Walter

Sign Language is a series of photographs that collapse everyday life into a form of abstraction. The images are about the fragility of identity in relation to commercial products. Each image is a domestic scene that is then deconstructed into varying levels of chaos and order, obscuring the identities of the figures within them. Focusing on excess, specifically the excess of consumer culture, media and our constant need to capture the moment, Sign Language reveals how these excesses influence personal identity and expression. By camouflaging families, couples and friends into consumer products, these images explore how the idea of home is being altered through the process of constant consumption.