When
this work is viewed from afar, it gives the impression that one is approaching
a mountain looming on the horizon. Upon closer inspection, the same space is
dark, bleak and devoid of life. Is it a benign mist on a shadowed peak, or grey
skies and black lands indicative of devastation? With an aesthetic inspired by
the romantic nature of traditional Chinese scrolls and landscape painting, the
land depicted is fictitious but reminiscent of reality.
The fragility of the
landscape is highlighted through the use of the material and the curled
installation; the translucent paper being crafted into something delicate and in
need of protection.
While
scientific enquiry has established that human activity has negatively effected
the global environment and climate, necessitating significant changes in human
living habits to prevent further deterioration seems slow in coming. Is this the
result of political and social inertia or have we come to accept environmental
change as inevitable?
The title "far away" is an allegory for
humanity's complacency in rectifying destructive behaviours towards the land, regarding
the possible consequences of this destruction as being temporally too far
removed from the immediate present to be a problem worth addressing. I aim to
use sarcasm and dark humour to draw attention to mankind's follies, and believe
that humour has the ability to encourage dialogue and gently invoke a change of
the viewer’s perception of his or her relationship with environmental destruction
and protection.
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