Biografia
My work explores a cultural response to the idea of ‘Nature’. This work involves two distinct stages in its origination. The process begins with walking in remote areas. At certain points I record a viewpoint photographically. The choice of scene is about a recognition of an emotional response or projection that the ‘vista’ illicits. This scene is recorded by taking multiple images, scanning the area from one position, that capture all that is visible within peripheral vision. The second stage is to import the multiple images into a computer. From the individual frames I reconstruct a seamless large-scale image that shows no sign of its construction. As I work I make decisions about the editing, leaving things out and distorting perspectives, bending peripheral vision to fit the flat picture plane. The result is an image reminiscent of its origins but altered. Francis Bacon said, “ I think if you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image”. The resulting large file sizes, printed up to
2 mtrs wide, show intricate detail, referencing romantic and sublime landscape painting
