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. This will include an acknowledgement of the link between a place and the community, which lives there. 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....