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Oblivious/Oblivion
I've been photographing landscape, which isn't unusual in photography but has been out of vogue for a number of years. The works have been made during storms, heavy rainfall, night, heavy winds, frost and fog. I haven't been working with still life but rather the moving form. Sometimes the conditions obscure the landscape and at other times they heighten the perception of it. There is a tendency to anthropomorphise nature, give it human attributes, just think of weather reports. Nature is immune, ignorant, and oblivious to this. We desperately try to define it for our own purposes, often in the belief that there is some form of battle being waged between the natural and the un-natural. Within this work I am not judging the beauty of nature but there is allusion to its representation maybe a bit of Caspar David Friedrich here a nod to Malevich there. Remembering the history of representation, if the making of landscape images is a political act then my politic is that we do not interact with nature only partake within it.
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