The Crossing, from "Icelandic walks", 16.8X56 inches (to see more, click on the image) |
These photographs were made during a walking trip in Iceland with other canadian and icelandic artists, during a project entitled Without A Trace. I am interested in the difference between 'the landscape' as an ideal or essential vision and the nature that it represents in this age of 'experience-by-proxy'. In our urban environments, we have learned to ignore distinctions between the authentic and the fabricated. |
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When I walk with other artists in such a place as Iceland, our eyes are wide with disbelief and wonder. I decided to work on the idea of the pixel as space within a landscape and I also gave myself complete liberty to reinterpret the walks we took: people and objects were placed in different locations than where they were photographed. I still consider that this work documents the expeditions, because I only used photographs of people who were there with me, in the places where we went. This continues my interests in juxtaposing fact and fiction within a documentary practice. The negatives were made with a medium-format camera, scanned to high-resolution and then printed by the light-jet process onto high-gloss Duraflex paper. (Direct digital light jet onto photographic emulsion). I am still making new images for this series. The average size iS about 30”X40”. |
Installation view of the exhibition Click on it for a link to see the entire exhibition, with Bob Bean, Susan McEachern, Vid Inglevics, David Hlynsky, Justin Wonnacott and Alex Homanchuck.(Thanks to Justin!) |
