‘Uncut’ is a provocation on systems of cultural dominance. Through interrogating power, privilege and sovereignty - the series examines how patriarchal, imperial, and neo-liberal systems mediate representation. Drawing on existing archives for contextual reference, the work aims to question the validity and very notion of cultural archives, examining the authorship and narrative that sit behind them. ‘The Golden Record’ arguably sits as the most appropriate example, distilling a representation of humanity into a handful of selected materials; ‘Uncut’ takes this as its counterpoint by re-creating the archive. These images create a new fictitious archive that’s knowingly subjective, yet flirts with the concept of the objective gaze, enabling notions of pseudoscience, performance, and the uncanny to play out. By subverting the gaze, the work proposes a return to narrative sovereignty. Power structures control visibility, in ‘Uncut’ the camera has become an observer of authority; one that reclaims who records history, and who is represented - whilst acknowledging the impossibility of the task.