LANDMARKS
«My photographs explore synthetic elements that signify human presence on the land. The starting point for my work is the assertion that the landscape art developed from the 17th Century is a construct that quickly became established as the dominant mediator for experiencing nature. When this aesthetic is combined with the apparent realism of photography it both informs and reveals our attitudes to the environment. Mainstream landscape photography relying on the picturesque offers a vision of a timeless environment unaffected by people. Landmarks by contrast gets down close and examines the marks we make on the land - some permanent like a tank trap, others more fleeting like a mark left on grass by a tent. These images are elemental and deliberately restrict the field of view away from the picturesque to simple abstract, almost manufactured shapes».
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