Sail

2015 | white smoke pyrotechnics, white light | landscape installation (photograph) | part of Loomings: produced by: Mark Devereux Projects | image: Andrew Brooks

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Significant within the Loomings project was the idea that the interventions into the landscape (as found in each image) should be the only indication of human activity; that the surrounding environments should depict an untouched, pristine wilderness, somehow detached from historical time. Conspicuously within this work (Sail – 2015) we began to subtly shift from this approach – leaving visible the path of footprints in the sand that are revealed in a pool of white light. Because of this, for me, this work becomes tied to the notion of absence. The glowing cloud rises upward from some departed point of origin, seeming unearthly and impossible as rendered in the frozen instance of the photograph.