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Landscapes
2006 |
Artist Statement
This series of constructed landscapes is another product of what I fully acknowledge to be an ambivalent relationship to photography. In 2004/05, I created a series of photo-sculptures in which I reconfigured the framework and conditions in which we normally perceive the photographic image by physically changing the image into a three-dimensional form. In front of these photo-sculptures viewers are confronted with the materiality of the photograph as it becomes the object’s skin, or a delicate and impermanent surface wrapping around space.
It was my attraction to these organic forms that lead me to continue working with canvas. However, for this series I chose to abandon the photographic image entirely and work with blank canvas. As I experienced these forms in my studio, noticing the change in moods and dimensionality due to the light variations and points of view, I began to see them as undulating topographies and landscapes. This brought me to appreciate anew and want to capture and fix in time—as a two-dimensional representation—that which was fleeting and impermanent. In retrospect, this process compelled me to return to explore the evocative power and poetics of the photographic medium—the language of light and shadow, depth of field, framing, timing and vantage point. |