Cathy Carter New Zealand Photographer and Multimedia Artist
  • Art Awards (dropdown)
    • Wallace Art Awards 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
    • Devonian Reefs, Molly Morpeth 3D Award, 2020
    • Parkins Prize 2019
    • Headon International Portrait Competition Finalist 2015, 2016, 2018
    • Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards Finalist 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Series of Works
    • Almost Paradise, 2021
    • Wai Wai Wai 2019
    • Weird Fishes, 2018
    • Poolside, Immersion and Emergence Malolo , 2017
    • Poolside Immersion and Emergence 2017
    • Waimarama, Residency: Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, 2018
    • Portals of Bare Attention 2016 / 2017
    • Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, Motu-O-Kura, 2018
    • Seaside Series 2016
    • Between Worlds
    • Oceanids: Rising
    • Oceanids # 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Drifting #1, 2, 3
    • Immersive Emergence
    • We Float
    • Viridescent -becoming green
    • Waitemata, 'Obsidian Waters' ( A public project)
    • Ophelia # 1, 2
    • Imminence
    • Immersion and Emergence
    • Adrift
    • Subtle Space
    • Mist
    • Zone of Immanence
    • Fluid Fields
    • Convergence
    • Sea Lion Rotation (light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio ( Light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio
  • Photos of Exhibited Work
    • Wai Wai Wai exhibition Nkb Gallery
    • Weird Fishes, 2018 Allpress Studio
    • Photoforum Exhibition 2018
    • Waitemata, Auckland Art Gallery
    • Arthaus Gallery 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography 2017, Theme: Identity. 2017 'Open Waters', (curated by Cathy Carter)
    • State of Play 2016
    • Oceanids , Paris Apartment.
    • Oceanids Rising 2016 Moaroom, Paris.
    • We Float 2014
    • Immersive Emergence 2013 (installation)
    • Imminence 2013
    • Zone Of Immanence 2012
    • Convergence 2012
    • Transitions 2012
    • Land vs Sea 2011 (Immersion and Emergence)
    • Mist 2010
    • Waterways 2012
    • Between Worlds
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Zone Of Immanence

This work is a response to landscapes as sites of psychological imaginings and visual phenomena. These works depict a zone of immanence, a mysterious or ambiguous space located in the natural world yet at the same time transcendent of it. Each space within this zone seeks to draw you in to explore their various layers and to ascribe forms to hazy reflections of reality. The work aims to connect the viewer with interior feelings and imaginative associations to form a visceral, psychologically-compelling encounter; to embody seeing as experience rather than solely observation. Within this liquid environment, time and gravity are momentarily suspended, to reveal a space of, quietness, desire, even loss. The work invites the viewer to imaginatively transform space, and in turn be imaginatively transformed by space.
 
These photographs have been shot in a unique ecosystem; a glacially eroded landscape that has resulted in an alpine cushion bog that has remained seemingly unchanged for thousands of years. Within the work there is an interest in the paradox of an apparent permanence which is at the same time so fragile within our rapidly changing natural world.
This site is situated on the southern side of Mt Ruapehu, part of the Tongariro World Heritage and Cultural Park in the central North Island of Aotearoa / New Zealand. This alpine wetland was formed in land planed and hollowed out by glacier ice in the last glaciation but  has been free of ice for thousands of years. It has become a habitation for alpine bog cushion (Donatia novae-zelandiae), containing rushes, liverworts, sedges, mosses (including peat-forming Sphagnum) and algae. The images come from an investigation of the benthic zone,  the lowest level of this body of water. 
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