This photograph, from the series Afterimage, is produced without a camera. The image is made, not taken

I select domestic objects drawn from traditional still life painting – such as vases, cups, glasses and fruit. These objects are moulded and cast in pigmented resin, creating translucent replicas, which are then placed onto photographic paper in the colour darkroom and exposed to coloured light, becoming photograms. I then flatbed scan and digitally arrange selected photograms in the style of still life painting.

Still life paintings originate from direct observation or projections, but my works are many steps removed - interrogating rather than reproducing their source. Employing sculpture, analogue photography and digital techniques these play with photographic mimesis. The final image is a recognisable, but ghostly apparition beyond the capacities of the simple camera lens.