ICELAND I

"Noordzee" & "Iceland" series are a part of my reflection on Landscape and his representation. At the beginning aimed towards industrial and urban landscape our society left us, i'm now working on places that look like forgotten, at the edges of our world, mix of domesticate Nature and forgotten places. By a contemplative meditation, i try to offer a 'mental landscape' instead of a 'real landscape'. I have interests for the landscape at his 'Edge', his fringe, his limits; where spaces become vague, sometimes unsettled, and where our relation with Nature has became ambiguous; a certain kind of undisciplined shape/form of landscape; some 'in between' places, born with the partitions of cities and countryside. Territory sometime still appears like blank and his representation goes hand in hand with traveling and the quest of the place, the light and the colours. As a painting, my photographs would offer a meditative contemplation, and build the backgrounds of an imaginary scene rather than her story. However, i try to be careful to avoid any suggestion of the picturesque and sentimental. I try to objectify the view that was offered, by revealing strangeness and fascination, and finally propose a 'landEscape'. The play with lines and horizon(s) (what could be so abstract and 'real' in the same time?) combine with polyptychs, technique of the framing and juxtaposition of pictures gives the opportunity to transform Places and mix several distinctive time and space. It's a way to appropriate the landscape in order to share a dream and allow a momentary journey at the limits of an impossible earth but build with picture of the 'Real'.