Terrain
“No matter how alienated we might become, we produce patterns that mirror the natural world.”
Victoria Vesna, Mind and Body Shifting from Networks to Nanosystems, 2002.
Terrain is an immersive light installation exploring shifts in perception of scale, form and landscape. Using light-boxes and projectors, a visual sequence unfolds distorting the viewers understanding of what they are looking at, creating imagined topographies that exist simultaneously on micro and macro plains. 35mm slides rotate on a constant cycle, displaying monochrome patterns that resemble one thing but recall another; morphing land and body, external and internal geographies, demonstrating an inter-connectedness between all living things, places and vistas.
Incorporating elements and materials both real and surreal, Terrain inhabits an other-worldly imaginative space while also focusing attention on the exhibition space itself; illuminating details of something ordinary and overlooked to generate a sense of otherness. Fusing the ambiguous with the recognisable, layering surface and atmosphere, the installation locates in-between spaces perhaps familiar, perhaps completely unknown.
Promotional postcards from the exhibition
Terrain was exhibited at Brighton University as part of the 2015 graduate show. Featuring leaf skeletons, a 35mm slide projector, light-boxes, a digital projector and an old floorboard.