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Exploration is the sister project to Fragment. Looking into the way that we see the world around us, as short glances and half seen sections compiled into a completed image in our heads, was the starting point of this series. Through making this split apparent through framing and split composition with each section a different negtive allows the space to be explored in different layers. If you step back then the whole image comes together into a single picture, come closer and the image comes apart into individual images. Within the completed images there are blurred, distorted or missing parts, simulating the incompleteness of the experience and how our mind can fill the gaps of what we expect to be there.
The Exploration series takes this idea and puts it into our day to day surroundings, this selection is focusing on the integration of nature and suburbia, the constructed natural appearance of the trees and the naturalised constructions of overgrown structures. The images are pictured in black and white to draw the attention to the forms and structures, but also to allow the images to blend more, making it neccesary to look closely at the detail in the images.
The pictures are all large compositions, the smallest being 1.5m across, and are made to fit the space they are shown in, allowing for wraps around corners, ceilings and other wall sections.