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The works in the psychogeography collection combine photography, collage, perception and memory to create prints which recall landscapes and places I have experienced through the act of wandering. 

 

Inspired by Japanese Ukiyo-e landscape artists such as Utagawa Hokusai and Hiroshige, I follow a tradition of experiencing a landscape free of any particular purpose in that time other than having an unselfconscious sensitivity to a psychogeographic experience.

 

I seek to create an image which conveys the ‘omni-jective’ view of memory.

 

I walk with a camera and take photographs to document visual experiences of a place; grabbing a quick shot of whatever spontaneously catches my eye. Many hundreds of photographed elements are later cut-up, recombined and re-contextualised to create a multi-temporal and multi-faceted representation of a place - a combination of actuality with impressions, perceptions and imagination all from the ‘omni-jective’ viewpoint of memory.

 

I am interested in how these works merge the practices which gave much of twentieth-century art-making its tension. On the one hand these works reach a representation in a painterly way, whilst on the other, they rely whole cloth on photography to arrive at their representation. 

 

I worked with Japanese master printer Mitsuhiro Matsudaira of Atelier Matsudaira in Tokyo, Japan printing on Japanese washi, hand made by 9th generation washi artisan and Japanese Living Treasure, Ichibei Iwano, a direct descendant of the artisan whose washi was used by Hiroshige and Hokusai and other notable Ukiyo-e landscape artists of the Edo era.

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