borrowed landscapes

Literary fiction and photography both have a void in the information that they provide. Indeed, every medium has a limit in its ability to fully represent its referent. Novels plant a seed from which readers must build their own aesthetic world; photographs provide a visual stimulus, depending on viewers to construct meaning from the signifiers of the scenes depicted. Borrowed Landscapes appropriates signs and symbols from both literature and the visual arts, using theatrical settings, to explore the relationship between author and spectator. The fundamental structure of the corner did not change for the duration of the project. The wooden flats were re-used, building layer upon layer of paint and wallpaper, much like the palimpsest of a painter's canvas. This recycling of the physical materials echoes the repositioning of ideas and imagery from other media. All artists, whether knowingly or subconsciously, borrow from their predecessors. Borrowed Landscapes purposely took influences, techniques and ideas from literature, theatre and the visual arts, juxtaposing them within these constructed sets to create open-ended narratives. The visual stimulus has been provided. Ultimately it has been left to the viewers to interpret the images in whatever way they see fit.