PUBLICATION LAUNCH

HOW IT HAPPENED

I thought I would reveal how my photographs are created as people are very curious and often ask. First step is location, location, location. I needed a wide-open space, which would also capture the surrounding environment. My mind was so distracted with finding an appropriate space that I did not realise that the space I chose was not only successful practically but also conceptually. It wasn’t until I returned to the space to re shoot that it all came together. The spaces were demolition sites, which meant I was replacing the absent spaces with presence. Lying on my stomach with a 50mm lens, I select the model while the sky and landscape is out of focus. The photography was a race against time to capture the fading soft afternoon light, which illuminated the imaginative spaces. Being an abandoned demolition site the spaces were over grown with aggressive weeds, bindi’s, broken glass, bugs and insects. By the end of the day my elbows were red raw, I had been the bull ants afternoon tea and I was covered in bindi’s which I still find in my clothes to this day.

F L O W

Anna Carey: Mirage (September 2012)

NEW WORK 2012

Sea Mist 2012, Giclee print 150cm x 100

Star Dust 2012, Giclee print 150cm x 100cm

Pacific Moon 2012, Giclee print 150cm x 100cm

Sunset Place 2012, Giclee print 150 x 100

White Diamond 2012, Giclee print 150cm x 100cm

Golden Palm 2012, Giclee print 150cm x 100cm

Flow 2012, Film Still, 6 minutes continuos loop

Flow 2012, Film Still, 6 minutes continuos loop

New Work exhibiting at Artereal Gallery, Sydney
5-29 September 2012
opening night 5 September
http://artereal.com.au/home/  

Magic

Look at the beautiful fragment I discovered after rummaging through some found lino. I think it shows Dylan Trigg’s argument in a weird but wonderful way. The ruins of space really do allow us to identify place. Pure MAGIC.

The Memory of Place

I am very excited to have ordered Dylan Trigg's new book The Memory of Place. 

Edward Casey gives an inspiring insight into the books content in his writing for the blurb. 

"From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world. Dylan Trigg’s The Memory of Place offers a lively and original intervention into contemporary debates within “place studies,” an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy, geography, architecture, urban design, and environmental studies. Through a series of provocative investigations, Trigg analyzes monuments in the representation of public memory; “transitional” contexts, such as airports and highway rest stops; and the “ruins” of both memory and place in sites such as Auschwitz. While developing these original analyses, The Memory of Place argues that the eerie disquiet of the uncanny is at the core of the remembering body, and thus of ourselves. The result is a compelling and novel rethinking of memory and place that should spark new conversations across the field of place studies".

The House Hunter

I have been lucky enough to be connected with The House Hunter also known as Monica Kovacic who is also  very obsessed with houses. Check out our interview and some intriguing houses http://www.thehousehunter.com.au/.