It is about the environment essentially, about the long term and short term solutions we adopt, and the idea of my work is to engage my audience in a debate, rather than convey a one-way message. It is constructed from paper and food like meringue and mash potato and I have chosen to use the crude construction as part of my concept to communicate my message. Below is a brief summary:
This body of work discusses and challenges the perception of photography and it’s relationship with painting. The landscapes are made from everyday foods and question our reliance upon the the photograph as ‘evidence’ of truth. Its main focus is on the relationship man has with the contemporary landscape and our intervention with it through technology and the resulting destruction of the environment from that intervention. Through lighting mainly, it creates a sense of irony, depicting scenes of a romantic aesthetic, yet apocalyptic, later revealing disturbing details under closer scrutiny. The obvious act of construction lends a hand to the fact that this is ‘our’ mess and that we are the architects of our own problem, reflecting the situation through a man made disarray. This body of work hopes to create an emotional relationship between the viewer and the image through sublime elements, encouraging the viewer to walk away with quite a profound message.
