Work:
Parker trained as a painter and approaches her photographic work in this tradition. She is concerned with ways of seeing and the multiplicity of meanings within photographs. Bosc shows the layering of meaning and how the photographer has constructed meanings. E.g. we see a pear, on the right of the image is a piece of text about a pear and also a number of drawing showing a pear from various angles (references to multi-perspective viewing). The textures in each layer are also very different a metallic box is suggested which is rusting and decaying, the drawing is seen as delicate and ageing, whilst the pear is crisp and new. Yet we may expect the natural form to be the most delicate and to decay more readily, Parker has used photography to capture the pear so that it will never decay. She frequently uses selenium toner on her black and white prints to create the illusion of the prints being older than they are, suggesting time.
"A row of peapods, alike in structure but alive in thier variation, fascinates me. A row of plastic flowers identical in their structure but dead in their sameness would hold little appeal- unless they had been chewed by a dog, varied, altered by living energy." (Photo Book, Phaidon)