Landscape and memory
Landscape
A hand-painted coastal memory map flows over location and lands where my feet have walked.
Toro and other stories
A friend was beside me and, when I look at this scene, I feel her presence still, though only her dog, naughty Toro, is visible.
The overlying text contains various snippets of seaside experiences and personal memories.
An iPhone panorama, overlaid with text, makes visible a nexus of place, of times, and of memories.
As memories are formed at a place, those memories become bound to that place. Over time, as the memories accumulate, being in a particular place will automatically conjure up images and stories from earlier visits. The physical details fade from sight as interwoven memories crowd out the scene, and so a familiar landscape gradually becomes more than just scenery and rolling hills. Memories belong to place and place belongs to memory.
In these images, landscape is not just scenery, it is memory.
Group exhibition: What is Kalos? MerakiArtists November 2020. AHeadOn Photo Festival associate exhibition (online initially and then shown again later in November 2020 at TAP Gallery due to Covid Pandemic disruption).