2018–2021
We have long held the sense as humans that there is a celestial or other presence beyond what our eye can see in the landscape. For me this is an ancestral and spiritual connection with the landscape and its features.
Through this work I wanted to draw out the presence behind the landscape that we see - to draw out those deeper connections, that we have with the landscape and to represent that through the use of light patterns. Some of those connections are beautiful and ethereal; some are solemn and respectful; some are wild and untamed.
The images are photographed in two phases. The original image is a traditional landscape. That is later re-photographed using coloured glass to refract and superimpose light over the original image. The time of day for that second photographic process will determine the nature of the refracted light – no two moments are the same and it is impossible to replicate an image once taken.
The two processes also reflect the two views of landscape – the superficial view that the eye sees, and the deeper one that the eye does not see.
This is how I have always imagined landscape – as a blank canvas for world of light, magic, and vivid colour.