Amy Robson
BDes (Hons) Photography
Maintenance
Maintenance (2025) explores Robson’s understanding of her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and attempts to make sense of how the disorder functions. She specifically concentrates on the repetitive nature of compulsions and the harmful impact of engaging with them. She was inspired to use a lawnmower as there is a housing estate, seemingly abandoned, near her home - however the garden of each house is maintained. Robson drew parallels between the oddness of maintaining something that does not need to be done to her own feelings towards her compulsions.
120mm digital scan. From triptych.
120mm digital scan. The negative has been scratched into showing multiple different outlines of the lawnmower. From triptych.
120mm digital scan. From triptych.
Digital photograph, hand-coloured. The final image in a set of sixteen.
Digital photograph, hand-coloured. Sixteen hand-coloured photographs displayed in a grid. The first image has been printed in black and white, hand-coloured, scanned, turned to black and white and reprint to be hand-coloured again.
Digital photograph, hand-coloured. Two pages from book.
Rice paper book, reproductions of hand-coloured images.
Sewn together rice paper print of 120mm digital scan. From triptych.
Sewn together rice paper print of 120mm digital scan. From triptych.
Sewn together rice paper print of 120mm digital scan. From triptych.