A landscape within a landscape.

This work is an extension of the work that I submitted for my postgraduate fine art degree in May 2018. That work consisted of an installation in which the diorama viewer seen in these photographs was placed in a room along with a number of other photographic prints, drawings and paintings all pertaining to landscapes taken from other worlds in our solar system. This submission made me consider how I could show this work outside of the installation to a wider audience. To these ends I set the plinth and viewer up in one of the fields on our farm and my son Luke went through the process of loading a model landscape into the viewer. This created a series of photographs generating a narrative; through which others can hopefully engage with the work. Generally my work is driven by a desire to explore the point at which art and science cross. My latest work and the photography in my submission came out of investigating the theory of how digitalisation in photography has led to the modern landscape being over photographed. It struck me that if I could photograph previously unexplored landscapes then I might get around this problem. As I can not afford to travel to otherworld's I decided to make my own versions of them and photograph those instead.