Bush Malady Artwork

“We got tired of the sameness of the exquisiteness of photography…Why? Because the photograph told us everything about the facts of nature and left out the mystery. Now, however hard-headed a man may be, he cannot stand too many facts; it is easy to get a a surfeit of realities, and he wants a little mystification as a relief.” Henry Peach Robinson circa 1896. It is the mystical component of this saying that informs my approach to my work. The mystical suggest something more than what the eye witnesses, and it is what my technique (multiple photographic exposures in a single frame) together with the print (100% cotton or Washi) that combines with the encaustic (resin impregnated beeswax) that permits the print to move from the literal to something approaching the subtle. Nature as is, is all there to enjoy, but unless we stood beside one another and resonated with the same sense of awe then in order for you to appreciate and sense the awe I sense, I must approach nature with a tactile approach, bringing something beyond the mere visual to the viewer. Our view of nature is recurring, repetitive and unevolving. Trees, water, earth…perceptual differences of species and genus remain but our conception of nature as a whole is by-and-large fixed, almost immutable, from a young age. This body of work is presented in a manner that might allow the Australian landscape to be felt at an intuitive level, thereby challenging the viewer to go beyond individually codified perceptions and thus understand, experientially, the fragility and beauty of this ancient place. I create landscapes, photographically blended so that the macro and the micro coexist. The intimate Australian landscapes, the scribble of a gum here amongst the red earth and supine skull of a marsupial held together tonally by an impression of the heat of the bush throughout. An intimate landscape, time-frozen by multiple exposure photographic frames is imbued with a sense of mystery and mysticism through the application of a veil of encaustic beeswax. The soft, mistiness of the wax, textured and worked with a paddle and iron, permeates the work both with a sense of authorship but also imparts a challenge to the viewer to engage with the bush from a spiritual, heartfelt perspective.

Mixed Media:Pastel on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.2 W x 33.1 H x 2 D in

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