this will also fade…
layered gampi cyanotypes, mounted on chamfered panels
2023
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On a recent trip to Iceland, the landscape was so unfamiliar, surprising, and immense that it was difficult to focus on form and detail, both in the moment and in recall. The experience highlighted anthropologist Christopher Tilley’s idea that “It is only in a new landscape, or an unfamiliar place, that one has to consciously think about relationships and learn where things are.”
The mutable nature of cyanotype, and it’s tendency to fade over time or in contact with archival, preserving materials, provided a new way to explore this fleeting grasp on my surroundings. And then using translucent gampi to layer and offset different photos and exposures conveyed the fluid and shifting experience of observation and memory.
These open spaces contemplate how much an unfamiliar landscape can remain an unknowable experience, and yet how, even with the briefest glance, we shape a sense of place.
