Liminal.
This series traces the delicate edge where sea meets sky, and where light, sea, clouds and horizons dissolve or come into sharp focus. Each image is made up of 5-15 exposures taken over a short period (20 minutes at most), usually around dawn and dusk. These are stacked within Affinity Photo software. The stacks’ output settings (e.g. ‘Range’, ‘Outliers’, ‘Variance’), which are normally used for image diagnostics, are here used for aesthetic effects in their own right. This adds depth and experimental changes in colour and texture.
Paul Klee, the celebrated Swiss artist, began his paintings with the simplest of marks and built from there. His idea of “an active line on a walk” emphasises spontaneity, movement, and exploration in a creative process with little previsualised outcome. I have followed Klee’s approach by taking thousands of photographs of sea and sky around the horizon line east from Te Hakapupu (Pleasant River), 45 km north of Dunedin, New Zealand.
The photographs reflect nature’s rhythms and disruptions. I wish to express my wonder, joy and deep concern for the changing natural world around us.
