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The Portable Muse |
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| A magazine of art-photo-fiction and other musings. | |||
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Photography Instinct and the Garden. The struggle that the landscape photographer faces is when and how to confront human involvement with nature. I have made conscious, and sometimes not so conscious, decisions about where to place my camera in relation to the communities that rest just at the edges of the landscapes that I investigate. In the past, I have attempted to squeeze out the human element, focusing on a patch of land that is between homes; the gaps created as suburban sprawl unfurls its tentacles. More recently, it seemed appropriate to deal with the not so subtle human compulsion to harness nature and, equally, nature's tendency to rebel. In the darkroom, I montage photographs of plowed fields, topiary gardens and monolithic architecture with images taken from television nature programs of wild animals and natural disasters. This technique allows me to create fictitious scenarios of a natural world and a material world that are as symbiotic as they are embattled. |