Anodyne
Friday, April 21, 2006
 
Into the Forest

Black and white digital photographs of unidentified deep woods, taken in and around the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island. Spurred by a Takao Tanabe charcoal drawing of a forest interior in the artist's recent VAG retrospective, which Adam Harrison and I admired for its "photographic" framing. Also in the back of my mind: Emily Carr's charcoals, the silvery grey light of Jack Shadbolt's Hornby Suite, and the springtime walk Culley and I took last March along the E&N rail tracks south of Nanaimo.

Criteria:

"All-overness"

No domination of any single part of the picture plane. (De-emphasis of figure/ground).

No readily visible horizon line.

Inversion of traditional black and white print quality. Even "neutral" grey tones.

A graphite rubbing of a landscape.


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