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  Photo Walks | 2014 - 2015

This series shows experiments with photography as one medium within my visual arts practice. They are explorative, and open ended. Taken on walks leaving cities across Europe, their initial purpose was to inform paintings. The images took on greater significance, and were further inspired by David Hockney's ideas of deconstructing the myth of the “reality” of a photograph. Some photographs are more literal documents of walks, showing movement and evidence of what is visible to us looking up in city streets. However, they are post-event compositions, the frequency with which a photo was taken was fairly arbitrary and so the assembly as a whole is incomplete, and inaccurate as a document of movement. It is like a map, but it is missing some information. In some photographs we see the sky captured, and shaped by buildings. The sky is framed. Buildings create permanent perspectives on what is otherwise a highly transitory experience. It is a human-shaped sky. There is no more horizon.