Grey rocks, and greyer sea - Limited Edition 1 of 6 Photograph

There was a time when most nights my unconcious was invaded by images of the sea. I choose the word ‘invaded’ quite purposefully as these were not pleasant dreams. Great swirls and eddies of white water and an ever encroaching rising tide marked these experiences as much as the feeling of constant threat and that strange shifting of realities that exemplify dreams. Living in the South African city of Cape Town I began to spend more and more time photographing the surrounding oceans from high mountain slopes desperate to make some visual sense of the nightly incursions. As I did this I came to realise that photography was not a medium entirely suited to a task of this sort. In many ways it is a very literal medium and struggles to capture such metaphorical relationships. It longs for the physical and for scale and context to allow us to access the reality of what is being photographed. When presented with the intangible it falters and relies on the viewer to connect the vague and indefinite dots it presents. Photograph after photograph I began to realise that, obviously, these seascapes began to represent my own troubled internalities, that wonderful term used by behavioural economists to describe a type of behavior that imposes costs on a person in the long-run, that are not taken into account when first making decisions. Living in a society such as South African these internalities are endless. We have pasts full of slave ships and prison islands lurking off our endless, pristine coastlines. As time has passed these pasts have not been resolved as well as they have become well hidden under museums and historical discourse. Yet, as well as becoming historic they have increasingly become internalised within our collective memories and as with any unresolved memory or experience they cause conflict disturbance even if only subconsciously. These internalities combine with the fears of the modern world, the threat of ecological collapse and the very real threat of rising sea water displacing and replacing much of what we know. We are caught in the middle of existential arguments about our future presence upon this planet that ramp up the consequences and concern as much as they refuse to provide any resolution.

Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:23 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in

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