Iceland, 2023

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These images were made using a large bellows camera containing, as the photographic plate, a modified digital scanner.The works are presented as glossy sublimation prints on reflective aluminium grounds. Depending on the light in which they are viewed their appearance can vary dramatically; something about the image is both fixed and elusive, emulating qualities of early photographic processes such as the daguerreotype.

The works chronicle the changing conditions during which they were formed, while also speaking to longer histories: to the record of time that is inscribed in the land across millennia; to continuity and to change. Inspired by the geological richness of Iceland, the images meditate on the power, fragile ecological balance, and temporal complexity of a landscape of unstable boundaries in permanent flux.

The first group of works presented here are printed the same size as the image cast on the ground glass back of the camera, again like a daguerreotype or a contact print from a glass plate negative. The later works are printed on a larger scale, perhaps more reminiscent of landscape paintings from the nineteenth century.