Since putting my photographs up in my studio space I have felt a wave of inspiration come my way. Having the images constantly in front of me has definitely informed my practice over the past two weeks.
I separated the images into groups where I felt they portrayed similar characteristics, first being the large group of images documenting the pathway shots. The second group were the landscape images, all which were taken and presented horizontally. Whilst this may have been to capture a wider lens of the landscape, to me,it was more of capturing a moment in time.
The similarity between the photographs was something that I wasn’t aware of at the time or I didn’t particularly notice whilst I was physically taking the pictures, however noticing certain things that always seem to be present within the snaps emphasises my interests and involvement with the landscape.
This shows links to my dissertation artist Hamish Fulton whose work is a reaction of his physical involvement with the landscape. If someone else decided to walk through the park, the photographic outcome may not have incorporated the same content. This is what makes my photographs and expressions taken from the landscape, personal to me as an individual.
I have slowly been looking at the different photographs and working from them in a similar way to my previous post. I have very much been enjoying working on a small scale and I think that they are much more effective than that on a large scale at the moment.
This may be down to the fact that the mediums I have been working with take better to the small sheets of paper in comparison to wood or canvas; or it may be the amount of detail I have incorporated into a more restricted scale.
I am still working with mixed media but have more ideas of different approaches to take. I am currently continuously working from some of the different photographs, making semi abstract documents of the landscape. My studies are currently investigating the existence of the natural world, expressing the essence of the landscape that forms the serene foundation which it portrays.
