These images were made in 2007 during a residency on the theme of 'imaginary Places' at Banff Arts Centre, Canada. They are primarily concerned with the ambiguous nature of the water’s surface.
As compared to the first set of images in the submersion series – shot at Tair Lair tidal pool in Scotland - in which a female figure offers a counterpoint to the landscape, suggestive of an interior space, here the body of the viewer provides an echo for the emptiness of the pool.
This series of photographs was taken in Scotland in 2005 while I
was undertaking a research residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in
Aberdeenshire. For me the tidal character of the site is central to
its potency, the gradual erosion of walls which previously
contained and utilised the energies of the sea, seeming to
physically and conceptually question ideas embodied in its
modernist design; formulated in an era when drawing the lines
between nature and culture seemed possible.
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