A Journey

It was whilst I was fortunate enough to be taken to some natural thermal springs in Toscana that I conceived this little piece.

It came back to me that at night the camera is able to capture the types of exposures which the human eye is just not capable of rendering. The machine is able record all that is put before it (given the chosen settings) as accurately as it is happening.

So by choosing to make a series of long exposures I have sought to uncover the unseen or under appreciated.

Within the images I have portrayed a typical journey which has a beginning and an end. However I also see thirteen separate landscapes, with a fairly consistent horizon. I feel that these images represent a state in which a populous have found it easy to exist; in a world where a constant effort is made to subvert nature and all of its affects.

A philosopher once mused on the notion of being an extraterrestrial coming to within good sight of the earth, wondering what it is, and who might be down there.

However once it became so close as it was able to see the streaming lights, clouds of smog and destructive nature of what was inhabiting the planet. It was likened to a cancerous cell or series of malignant tumours; thus deciding to keep going on past the place many call home.

I have sought in this series of images to highlight the synthetic nature of outdoor spaces. The ways in which a participant is now directed without subversion through a series of malignant places, in which it has been lost, the idea of harnessing nature through an interaction to be able to travel in the directions desired.