A series of black and white prints from a collection of ships’ figureheads, representing artifacts from a two hundred year span.
A series of black and white prints from a collection of ships’ figureheads, representing artifacts from a two hundred year span.
Exploring a nautical theme, I photographed a collection of ship’s figureheads where time is collapsed as we compare and contrast the superstitions and proclivities that two centuries of maritime culture had produced in a time before engineering and contemporary navigation techniques made such icons surplus. Unknown artisans toiled for likenesses made from wood of political, mythical, royal or familiar family members. Photographed here in a crowd breaks all intended tradition of isolation and uniqueness that these figureheads once held each at the prow of their own individual now unidentifiable vessels.
My series “Terra Figmenta” portrays the ambiguity, moods, calm and epiphanies to be found in the landscape. I’m interested in the idea of an inner landscape, nature and the subconscious in and exchange where places become feelings, moods become land formations.
Shooting on film with my trusted and crude Diana camera I roamed the coasts of Iceland in a solitary residency.
