Selected images from 'An Honest Hunt' taken during a residency in the Yukon, CA. The series offers a sublime view of hunting culture in the northern reaches, after spending time with a community of First Nations.
The body of work I?ve submitted explores a contemporary vision of the term Landscape. These arresting images have an underlying agenda to ultimately display the intrusion of urban crudities and natures innate ability to adapt and overcome.
Within this concise body of work there are three sub sections, the depiction of burnt out cars, landfill sites and derelict buildings from an industrial age and the eco systems that surround them.
In the ?Playground? series burnt out vehicles appearing as foreign objects in an otherwise tranquil environment. The disfigured cars in their final resting place offer a wealth of evidence and suggestion to how they came to be there, obscure narratives ensue, like a dream or a chance encounter. Documenting and preserving these scenes as a legacy to misspent youth, this series offers a vision of the modern sublime.
The images aim to examine the boundaries of modern life, classed housing areas, the industrial estate labyrinth that surrounds our towns and villages and the tiny spots of wasteland yet to made into co-op housing or some new ?greenbelt?.
What interests me is how the cars continue to exist long after they have been forgotten; they become invisible and morph into their new environments. It?s so appealing that nature absorbs these grotesque invaders, these smouldering masses; the environment and intruder almost violating each other in a torrid union, morphing into one another. The transformation complete these objects lie dormant to be rediscovered at a later date, the consequences of earlier actions finally becomes evident.
