9/21/2009

How can we live without the unknown before us?


On My Shore.

These landscapes exist where the dreams and imaginings of the individual meet the reality of a landscape. Imaginings such as the limitless depths of oceans with their reflective surfaces and the colour of light filtering through trees create a departure point to explore a known or unknown space.

On My Shore is a mystical meshing of the fathomless, infinite space of sky and sea and the grounding, physical expanse of land. Dreamlike topographies are revealed, explored and small rituals are performed. On My Shore manifests unknown realities.

I have used analogue and alternative photographic techniques combined with post production processing. Long exposures and a hand-held production approach enable me to move my body with my camera in the image making process.

On My Shore will culminate with a self-directed research trip to the United States. I will visit landscapes previously known to be through movies and books and collective knowledge. I plan to produce a video work of my “first encounters”, projecting my idealised imaginings onto a now real landscape.

3 Comments:

Blogger Jodi Dickhaut said...

Nice, I feel like I can relate to this dream like quality. Is this piece symbolic of an actual dream/nightmare you had?

1:09 PM  
Blogger marla said...

Jodi - maybe a waking dream. i read something recently where that to feel alone and enter your own "waking dream space" or a space where you can "disappears" you have to be surrounded by an excess. Information, sounds, bodies. Only after we have immersed or surrounded ourselves in information can we truly disappear.

7:12 PM  
Anonymous Jenny WOolf said...

I like anything which looks between the spaces. Thanks for these images. I am finding myself doing this too in my own work which is literary rather than photographic, though images are also important in helping to shape the concepts.

10:49 PM  

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