Imagined & Remembered Places 2018 onwards

‘Real images are engravings, for it is the imagination that engraves them on our memories.  They deepen the recollections we have experienced, which they replace, thus becoming imagined recollection’

Gaston Bachelard, – ‘The Poetics of Space ‘first published 1958, trans. Maria Jolas, Boston, Beacon Press 1969 p. 32

An on-going series of ‘landscapes’ based around images of places and spaces visited, recorded, imagined and remembered.  The works begin by re-visiting photographs and sketches made at a particular time in a particular place.  They are layered, much in the way memories are, and manipulated – things come to the fore, emerge then disappear.

All images are archival digital inkjet pigment prints 500 x 900 mm

Hobart 2018
The Mirrored Lake 2018
Ver II 2018
Sofia 2018
Harbin 2018
Hunter 2018
Demoiselles I 2018
Demoiselles II 2018
Demoiselles III 2018
Downs 2019
Mangawhai 2019
Amsterdam – The Shop on the Hill 2019
15 Houses 2019
Time Slides I 2019

Technically there is a relationship to working with moving image and layered video and some images could be regarded as ‘film stills’.  The addition of scanned sketches and digital drawing intends to reference the time and place as recorded on paper and remembered on screen.