Aerial #27

The AERIAL series comprises 30 gridded Negatives selected from the collection have drawn significant visual parallels, comparisons, absences and startling cultural demographic impacts when working and researching through aerial reconnaissance images. Conceptual and current contemporary and past historical imperatives to speculate on this specific, contested and ‘extreme’ location in terms of acting as a global barometer and cultural impact site, has created a unique and significant opportunity to work and image in this area on both the Jordanian and Palestinian banks of the Dead Sea and surrounding accessible locations. Critical to the conceptual approach to all work is the aerial shift of spectatorship and geopolitical significance of topographies and their extreme location and elevation, both in height and depth on the global surface. Aerial contacts comprise a grid of 30 contact glass plate negatives (permission for reproduction, Library of Congress) measuring 120 cm x 120 cm comprising within each, 35 / 5 x 4 inch negative glass plate contacts which are, at every glance and scrutinisation in the studio production of work and field location undertaking, more than mere documents or documentation