Songs of the Desert.
Sand is everywhere and can be used as canvas or ink, forming the building blocks of our environments, while also possessing the power to destroy. What form it takes depends upon the shaper and observer, you.
High Noon / Sandstorm.
High Noon.
Sandstorm.
Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl. Size: 81.1 x 50 cm (5cm white border).
Observe two photographs standing together. First High Noon, which shows the sunlight falling onto black sand. The black volcanic sand is unique to Iceland, and it can be both beautiful and a force of major destruction. Second, Sandstorm, shows how sand blown from highland deserts can change everything, turning colours on their head, from blues and greens to yellows and browns, altering our reality and perhaps our understanding of it as well.
Tricolori.
Sunset.
Noon.
Sunrise.
Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl. Size: 59,3 x 36 cm (3cm white border).
The Tricolori are all taken on the same camera, the same lens, and all colours are the same as shot. They are, however, taken in three different countries, one at sunrise, one at noon, and one at sunset. They are the component colours of each location and time, framed in the familiar form of a national flag. The varying levels of light also affect the colours and when all three photographs are lined up together, forming a triptych of sorts, they convey the passing of time.
Reflections.
Light.
True.
Dark.
Photo print under acrylic glass, 20x30cm.
Reflections are another triptych, three individual photographs of the same facade shot moments apart. Again, sand dominates the view, this time in the form of glass, enabling the viewer to look both through it and at its reflections, expanding the view beyond the photograph itself. Like in the Tricolori series, the varying levels of light give an idea of the passing of time, of ever-increasing entropy.