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EARTH: Art of a changing world (part 3)
Suzanne Moxhay’s work Halcyon is another epic large format photograph. Showing a beautiful misty landscape we read that her images are constructions of imagined worlds, she photographs 3D collages she has made from collected cut outs. her worlds appear haunting yet beautiful.
Yao Lu’s photograph Spring in the city, Is at a distance a typical chinese landscape painting, on a closer look one sees that he has photographed mounds of rubbish covered in protective green nets, he has then manipulated the photograph by adding in motifs of typical landscape painting. It is a beautiful and clever take on the changing landscape of China.
Mariele Neudecker is another favourite of mine. Her work is called 400 Thousand Generations, the works title is how long it took for photosensitive tissue to evolve into the human eye. Her work explores the sublime landscape little changed over time.
The last work that I also was impressed by was Emma Wieslander’s series of landscape photographs she had taken using a Claude glass, a small black convex mirror used widely by artists in the eighteenth century to frame a landscape by reducing it to an ordered view. She is interested in romantic notions of the celebration of landscape where nature can be appreciated for its pure beauty.
