Images

The images presented are my ongoing visual research into comparative observations of the natural landscape and landscapes created by design. They intend to preserve the experience of the place by focusing on its significant or unique features. I approach photography as a painter might, utilizing the inherent qualities of the photographic medium to generate visual images that extend the traditional understanding of what the medium might be. The images are made using the photographic technique of exposure layering. The resulting images splice slivers of time and space together, producing images based in the photographic but which dissolve into dreamlike panoramas of lush colour and texture, defying the documentary nature of photography and moving instead towards the impressionistic and painterly. This method provides a more continuous, time based, experiential sense of an environment, paralleling how places are later recalled in the memory, by visualizing a compression of the significant aspects of a place and creating a concentrated representation of the experience of having been there. This work is part of a long term project that has evolved over time and which recently has seen me reverting to principals used in other technologies to enable me to enhance the intensity of the colours and make the environments even more lush than they were in reality, resulting in a more filmic atmosphere. The photographs are models of my own perception of the locations, presenting attention to the unique details of the various environments I was attracted to, and a sense of experiencing the environments