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	>>JoTurner
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	“None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did.” In her essay entitled Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag discusses how art has become too intellectualised, and how it is time that we went back to where art was admired for its visual and formal elements and where it challenged the senses, instead of being approached as an object in which to decipher a meaning from. I work very instinctively, using formal ideas of colour, balance, line, tone and light. I see everyday objects and find aesthetic beauty in them. For this particular work I have used a very slow shutter speed to capture the movement on the television screen. I have then used Photoshop to zoom in on sections of the image and created the final, large scale (1200 x 1200mm) pixilated works.