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This body of work; ‘EQUIPOISE’ is a recording of my personal engagement with the landscape through specific walks I have been on in and around the Peak District. Challenging whether the photograph can be accepted as a substitute for an experience, I aim to invite the viewer to question the act of walking as a focus for art practice. My presence in the landscape is demonstrated through the bringing together of elements such as the pairing of image and text, mark making, maps and sound.
My project has a strong investigative element to it in regards to both practice and research, being largely focused on mainly accepting the outcome; resulting in work which is a poetic reflection on harmony, thinking and walking. There is a reality of impermanence and change sensed throughout- creating an ambiguity between the artwork presented and the nature which exists outside of it; striking a balance between the thoughts of myself, external aspects of the walks, and physical recordings of the journey.
The work explores ideas of traditional notions of the landscape whilst balancing a more contemporary approach to the subject; through taking inspiration from walking artists such as Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, presenting the landscape as a place to inhabit rather than represent from a distance.
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