Rosehouse

Moyra Davey ‘On Photography’ - “There is a flânerie of reading that can be linked to the flânerie of a certain kind of photographing. Both involve drift, but also purpose, when they become enterprises of absorption and collecting.“ ‘Rosehouse’ is created through obsessive editing, collecting and compositing. Hundreds of images were taken in the surrounding area, then sorted into potential composites. These composites are a swell of pink and purple; tendons, veins and follicles - raw trails stitched together into fantasies. These fantasies become access points for remembering; bougainvillaea for my mother, green mossy rocks for my sister and purple drenched leaves for my father. The landscape is a site for the projection of memory and nostalgia – it is a remembered or imagined scene, a wreath of recollection.