The Alienation series conveys a sense of abandonment and entrapment prevalent within British identity and landscapes. Never before has there been a time in which disconnect is a defining emotion 鈥 a feeling which continues to damage and dominate through the continued restrictions of the pandemic 鈥 with constant distance from normality. Further to this, Villacci鈥檚 images communicate a sense of between geographic bodies, with the UK鈥檚 landscape sprawling, conceptually, outwards and away from the EU. He notes: 鈥淥ur future is uncertain, but our present is well known. This project considers the relationship between the physical island we call home and us as inhabitants: how we have alienated ourselves.鈥
Jay Villacci
