Distance

It seems to me that with any representation of landscape in art the implicit distance risks alienating the viewer from the scene. 

I wanted to think about to this. Rather than use the usual techniques of perspective I thought that, as a digital artist, I could reference how we all too often experience the natural environment, at a distance. Observers rather than participants. 

‘Bokeh’ - In photography, bokeh is a term that refers to the out-of-focus parts of an image.

Rather than just take an out-of-focus photograph of a particular landscape I wanted to enhance the sense of the artificial whilst exploring my chosen medium. I’ve manipulated the digital images to bring out the pixelation and emphasise the gradients.

Effects that are considered failures of technology are celebrated here as if evidence of pixelation were my equivalent to the brush-stroke of a painter.

It seems right to struggle and fail to capture the natural world as it is. A world that’s increasingly objectified, observed rather than felt.

With these images the viewer has to physically put distance between themselves and the image in order to find the usual landscape-art effects.  

My digital art practice inspired by photography as much as painting is varied and experimental as I look for a vocabulary of my own somewhere between these 2 genres.