A photographic investigation of the interaction between imagination and landscape photographed over two years in Southern Victoria. The project is informed by research into the contested notions of the sublime and the beautiful, and influenced by historical and contemporary approaches to landscape theory and image-making.
The starting point of this journey is the rejection of the picturesque.
Utilizing the latest camera and flash technology available as well as traditional methods a more personal and psychological viewpoint is put forward. The locations are entered with an open mind and the imagination is allowed free reign. Originally the focus was to be on misplaced colonial interpretations of the Australian landscape itself but as the photography developed and writing and research was undertaken the project shifted to a more personal and psychologically based inquiry.
How our imagination interacts with the outside world, how memory and primal emotions interact when confronted by the shapes and sounds around us are key to the outcomes as a place of constant change, a theatre of possibility.
The outcomes of this research and practice are a four-part photobook housed in a slipcase and an exhibition in the Norla Dome of the Mission to Seafarers Victoria at 717 Flinders Street Docklands.
