Though based on photographs of real places, the visual fragmentation evident in these paintings offers no narrative and they don't stand neatly on their own in storytelling. Not that paintings need to have an obvious narrative to have meaning; meaning can be assigned by the viewer.

Responding to William Eggleston's snapshot aesthetic, I sought to explore how a painter could respond to the challenge of seemingly removing meaning. But removing meaning is harder than it sounds. Painting is not achieved at shutter speed.

The use of cropping and saturated colours were Eggleston's way of presenting the banal and everyday. It's not really what I've achieved here, but it's been an interesting experience.

These paintings were made for a solo exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery, 20 October - 1 November 2017. The exhibition is the one I was awarded as second prize in the Small Works Show 2016. Feeling exhausted and uninspired, the works I produced seemed to have no meaning; I seemed to have no need to say anything through them. So that's it. My paintings are visual experiments.

I hope there is some beauty there.