Fallow 7730-33 by Bette Mifsud
$1,300.00
Size (cm): 83 x 29
transparent photos on plywood
‘Fallow 7730-33 uses technical and conceptual methods to explore themes of history, perception, and the passage of time, through landscape. It is a transparent photographic diptych on marine plywood taken in rural NSW.
The woodgrain is an integral part of the images, and links both. The image transparency creates a dialogue between the natural and the constructed, the organic and the manufactured.
I relinquished compositional control by taking the photographs through a travelling car window. This method invites viewers to question how perceptions change when experienced from a fast-moving, transient viewpoint.
‘Fallow’ draws influence from the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich’s, specifically his allegorical, often bleak, isolated landscapes, and Théodore Rousseau’s wild, unruly treescapes.
These places were shaped by European colonization where attempts to “tame” the indigenous landscape led to its destruction. Nevertheless, such places can possess their own dignified beauty
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