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.
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.
