Reframing the land
Currently I am working on Rural landscape
My overall aim is to produce a body of photographic work,
which represents an alternative to the widely published views of New Zealand as a ‘scenic wonderland.’
These by and large hark back to the traditions of the sublime in Western art and
are more often than not designed to conjure up notions of a New Zealand as an
unspoiled wilderness. I want to use my photographic practice, as well as my personal
experiences of specific New Zealand places, to produce an alternative canon of
New Zealand landscape photography which i consider beautiful.
My overall aim is to produce a body of photographic work,
which represents an alternative to the widely published views of New Zealand as a ‘scenic wonderland.’
These by and large hark back to the traditions of the sublime in Western art and
are more often than not designed to conjure up notions of a New Zealand as an
unspoiled wilderness. I want to use my photographic practice, as well as my personal
experiences of specific New Zealand places, to produce an alternative canon of
New Zealand landscape photography which i consider beautiful.
This will include an acknowledgement of the link
between a place and the community, which lives there.
I am interested in fractal design in the landscape. Working from the idea that there
is no longer a nature that is unchanged from its natural form by humanity, the form
has been manipulated by humanity to conform to a pattern.
We have forgotten, that we are from nature too, and seem to think we are separate
and immune from the environmental effects that change nature.
We are nature but not natural, a self-vision of what we see in the dark mirror.
We are the effect on nature that slews the balance, the aesthetic that we seek is, our
self-image, in our homemade natural environment.
We some how strive to keep the world natural but in the process we pollute, change, improve our notion of natural.
Footpaths are created in a park to protect the ecosystem, but the footpath creates a new system.
Thousands walk on the path and leave a ghost of change, that effects in some small way the environment.
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| Flood due poor drainage on a development in the port hills |
I am interested in fractal design in the landscape. Working from the idea that there
is no longer a nature that is unchanged from its natural form by humanity, the form
has been manipulated by humanity to conform to a pattern.
We have forgotten, that we are from nature too, and seem to think we are separate
and immune from the environmental effects that change nature.
We are nature but not natural, a self-vision of what we see in the dark mirror.
 |
| Submerged land and flooding from earthquake damaged road |
We are the effect on nature that slews the balance, the aesthetic that we seek is, our
self-image, in our homemade natural environment.
We some how strive to keep the world natural but in the process we pollute, change, improve our notion of natural.
Footpaths are created in a park to protect the ecosystem, but the footpath creates a new system.
Thousands walk on the path and leave a ghost of change, that effects in some small way the environment.
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