The exhibition Impossible Gaze was created as a visual response to some of the theoretical issues underpinning the contemporary viewing experience in historic museums. This work concentrates on the individual's experience and the senses that come into play in the museum environment. It considers how art's architectural and historic contexts combine to elicit inarticulable, liminal, sensorial, physical, or emotional responses and acknowledges that museum viewing is formed at the intersection of cultures, histories, the past, the present, and the subjectivity of the viewer's own gaze.

The images of Impossible Gaze were photographed in the grand galleries of Palazzo Pitti, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, and the Galleria degli Uffizi, in Florence . These historic buildings, having undergone four centuries of reconstructions, renovations, and re-decorations, are presently used as public museums. Through the images created for this exhibition, I propose that these spaces and their decoration are as significant in the creation of the viewer's experience as the great artworks they hold. My images strive to evoke the phenomenon of these extraordinary places: the opulent galleries, sumptuous textures, ambient lighting, and cramped spaces of these once private places.

Seizing on fragments of artworks and objects layered with wall, floor and ceiling decoration, this exhibition shifts the viewer's focus to the spaces in-between the historic artworks. In this body of images the in-between becomes the centerpiece.