Collection Title:
Oceania
Collection Context:
This new collection of work looks to blurr the line drawn between land and sea and explores th shared gestures and structural affinities of coastal land and underwater flora.
Looking to submerged plant life, I am exploring the way in which light and shadow under the surface affects colour and shape. Fascinated by light and its visual language as it fractures through moving water, how translucence, reflection and refraction continuously reshape what is seen. These works seek to emulate the rippling transparency of water and the quiet rhythm of rolling waves, where edges soften and boundaries blur.
There is a focus on sensation: the feeling of floating, suspended between weight and weightlessness; the act of looking downward into darkening depths where colour drains to near-monochrome; and then the dive — a slow immersion into a saturated, luminous world that gradually comes into focus
Stepping out of the sea and exploring the detritus on the beach. Looking to the colours of the seaweeds, the washed up shells and the ever pervading grasses that survive in the wild sand dunes and the flora that grows between rock forms and cliff faces.
Oceania collection morphs these two opposing landscapes.
Photography Credit: Sarah Anderson @sarahanderson