Viewers experience the landscape at eye-level by placing their heads within the terrarium-like structures. The experience is multi-sensory and immersive, with muffled sounds and smells of earth and moss. Viewers find themselves in intimate proximity to soil, plants, and each other, sharing the same air. I continue to develop this series of works which I …
In 2018 artist John Newling spent 81 consecutive days writing letters to Nature. The letters echo the sentiment of a series of letters to a loved one but with a voice of humanity attempting to come to terms with its relationship to nature. The letters take you on a journey through the history of agriculture, …
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In 2006, Edgar Martin photographed forest fires that consumed vast area of Portugal. The changing temperatures have caused drought and high temperatures; leading to death and destruction from natural habitats. Although this isn’t cause by anthropogenic deforestation; anthropogenic climate change has cause varying temperatures and global warming that has an effect of drastic temperature fluctuations. …
Nov 11, 2020
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Flesh isn’t flesh if it splinters, the shins of the earth buckle, oscillating horizontality until the bounds lock in place, motion through a shifting motion. Nov 11, 2020
An interesting juxtaposition at the site was the logs lining the edge of the forestry; where the trees would be standing for one moment and lying as part of a commodity the next moment. The horizontal versus vertical create an interesting intersection that frames the surrounding landscape. Nov 11, 2020
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This B&W image encompasses the whole site; the derelict land, the felled logs, the pines and the regrowth area. The foreground is dominated by the stacked trunks to frame the site with the sheer amount of wood to contextualise the image. Nov 11, 2020
The first thing noted upon entering the site is the sheer volume of logs piled high. They lie ready, waiting to be transported to a production plant to transfer the wood into a number of differing products. They are organised by diameter and ring specifications in order for the loading process to be swift and …
The panels of progression creates a clear line of narrative with the obstruction of the foreground becoming a clearer frame showing the content of the glass house.The 4 frames become a picture board to show the effects of the appreciation and intrigue of nature. Oct 19, 2020
Don’t Tap the Glass, you’ll disturb their slumber. Though, they won’t stir, that press has effect. Not that anyone will know The wait of that touch extends beyond your memory- the trauma of the tactility, scars and broken bones. The consideration not of the being. …
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