Casper's Forest Print

Artist/Curator Working with the notion of permanence and impermanence, instability and uncertainty, photographs, films and books of lost places become an allegory for the passage of time and the futility of small acts of survival. I am interested in the wonder of contemplation as a counterbalance to the certainty of science and look to archaeologies of place to tease out stories. I turn these topographies into abstracted or fragmented surfaces using traditional printmaking and digital photographic processes, film stills and projections, while retaining a sense of place in the image: waterfalls that move in reverse, film stills of mountains that allude to an otherworldliness. These experiments in print look to confront the imperfections of memory, and like typewriter ribbons that preserve an imprint of the stories written on them in their fibres, map the successive layers that erase and transform the landscape, generating a new narrative and collapsing past and present. ____________________________________________ www.victoriaahrens.com balors2@hotmail.com 07966283696