During the ascent in the balloon at heights of 500 to 1,000 metres over the ground, we were especially enchanted by the shining, full, lush blaze of colours revealed by the earth below us. Far and wide, the forests appeared as the most gleaming, greenest moss or like glorious green velvet. … But as we […]
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(New work for exhibition at the Grant Bradley Gallery’s group show Walking Through the Veil, Bedminster, Bristol). Trees and forests have long been held as places of mystical encounter. For Britons, it’s in our psyche, and we defend woodland religiously. Even if only as a place of nominally unspoilt nature, it’s a demarcated zone for
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Landscape can provide a healing element, and the gulf between nature and civilisation that has been exacerbated by industrialization becomes bearable… Landscape becomes the window of our relationship with reality, images of landscape becoming a reflection on ourselves… When photographs reproduce a landscape, they show us what is different about it, what separates it from
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Content and form are not as romantic as you might think, when getting down to making work about nature. It’s messy. Ideas get tangled, over-evolved, and you lose your neat camera-eyed perception. Backtracks, cover-ups, false-starts tumble into the day’s progression – I’d forgotten how mixed up you can feel. And landscapes don’t fit the frame
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