Photography becomes a visual investigation into these landscapes that saturate me. What does this landscape – the one that is trying to press itself out of me – look like? A photograph of a waterfall and an Urban Parlour Game instigating a “growl-suck” are for me interrelated. The photo initiates an inquiry, it is a study of the types of textures and vibrations that
a growl (a way to emit or spurt a waterfall) carries through the body.
Why landscape as a metaphor?
Landscapes frequently propose and instigate the non-rational in me. The landscape itself becomes a non-rational being. It has emotional processes that move themselves as natural forces. These forces can sometimes enter me, setting off my own series of bodily responses. Sometimes the landscape seems interested in exhibiting the potential to overtake me physically as is the case with sunburn, freezing, and drowning. This is one of its forms of intimacy. It can penetrate you. These geological intimacies can seep into the contemporary urban landscape.
