In the attempt to understand how the camera works I built a camera obscura and discovered that photography exists without us. That nature produces pinholes of light that form images came as a revelation. This spawned a new way of exploring the body in motion through photography. I have taken a process-driven approach by imposing rules on how and when I shoot. Guided by instinctual body memory of light and space, I record the landscape in motion without using the viewfinder or lens.
The process of printing has a strong relationship to painting in these images, which the digital file cannot emulate. The uneven surface of handmade paper is absorbent, unlike most digital prints that ‘surface’ the paper. I have researched this phenomenon through gaining an understanding of colour gamuts and profiles and how soft and hard copies are related. With this knowledge I can continue the conceptual process by imbuing the print with body memory, that is, of how I ‘imaged’ and remembered movement of the landscape.