Images accompanied by soundcapes.
The sight of trees, pasture and water forms part of an Evolutionary Aesthetic that has instinctively influenced our choice of habitat since Paleolithic times. The Anthropocene has seen landscape designers moving mountains to bring this aesthetic to their clients, on the estates of landed gentry, in suburban gardens and public utility spaces.
Understanding our immediate environment is a process, built up from fragments of information over time as our eyes visit and revisit what we see, overlaid by what the soundscape tells us about the unseen ecology. Our experience is not indexical; it is the memory of fleeting bursts of attention accumulated over time.
I have chosen to challenge photography's lauded indexicality by layering and degrading multiple images and sounds recorded intuitively as I react to the locations over time, locations that do now or did once conform to Evolutionary Aesthetics. The world is represented not as a rectangular spacial ideal, but an untidy temporal accumulation, increasingly disturbed by the evidence of our own presence, evidence of our own presence, evidence the landscape can communicate to the viewer through my work
