Erratics 2023/2024 

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The history of landscape representation has been shaped by the perspectival view, which in turn shapes how we see and interact with natural environments. Through the camera viewfinder, landscape is framed as picturesque, a European garden view of the world, that is measured, collected, and ordered. Through the evolutions of my photographic practice, I have investigated how photography represents the natural world. Today, photographic representation has undergone a revolution. Images are now text generated by AI,  computerised, networked and transmitted as a kind of language, a language that floods screens and streets.  

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The climate crisis, and collapsing ecosystems, demand an urgent rethink of how we conceive and represent our place in the world. My concern is that the framed "window”  the photograph offers separates the viewer from that which they want to get close.

 

This new series of works suggest the illusory space of the photograph is a malleable fiction. Soft images are bent into hard material, as planar objects. The fluid blurred background recedes against the eruptive, arrested, image of geologic instability.

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