National Landscapes

Magenta is a colour that does not exist in nature - it has no wavelength. We still see it, because our brain combines two colours at either end of the colour spectrum, red and blue. Magenta is in fact completely man made. I have always been more interested in man made things than natural phenomena. Culture rather than nature. Cultural landscape more than wild nature. But I try and keep it to myself. As a Norwegian I am aware that a large part of the collective national identity is based on a love for nature and spending time in natural environments, and I feel pressure to fit in. In my series of images, I am experimenting with nature and landscape photography as a genre, and all the images contain the colour magenta. For me this project is about finding my Norwegian identity. I have learnt to love nature on my own terms, without the most modern hiking gear and most strenuous mountain trekks. But seeing the contrast between the urban and the natural world, the man made and the natural as something exciting, and when combined it becomes even more meaningful to me.