Moving Landscapes (Ongoing: 2022 to Present)
27 images Created 21 Jan 2019
Images included in July, 2022 Norfolk CT Library Solo Exhibition
Technically speaking these are photographs of place, but technique eliminates the distraction of recognition and the inclination to say “Oh, I know where that is” and focus on the feeling…the mood… the atmosphere.
Each image is a study or a meditation on a particular location but the specific location is not the focus; the colors, tones, hues, and depths of each image, and whatever thoughts or memories the image elicits in the viewer are…
The names of the works are taken from “An Sanasán Uisce | The Water Glossary”, an incredible work of language and art and scholarship by Carol Anne Connolly. How I came to know The Water Glossary and why I have employed it's contents here is in itself an amazing story but too long for this space, so ask me about it.
From her introduction…
“over time and through myriad languages and dialects, an astonishing lexis for landscape has developed and, in turn, formed our identity and understanding of the nature of being.”
Technically speaking these are photographs of place, but technique eliminates the distraction of recognition and the inclination to say “Oh, I know where that is” and focus on the feeling…the mood… the atmosphere.
Each image is a study or a meditation on a particular location but the specific location is not the focus; the colors, tones, hues, and depths of each image, and whatever thoughts or memories the image elicits in the viewer are…
The names of the works are taken from “An Sanasán Uisce | The Water Glossary”, an incredible work of language and art and scholarship by Carol Anne Connolly. How I came to know The Water Glossary and why I have employed it's contents here is in itself an amazing story but too long for this space, so ask me about it.
From her introduction…
“over time and through myriad languages and dialects, an astonishing lexis for landscape has developed and, in turn, formed our identity and understanding of the nature of being.”
