statement

This series of photographic works acts as a counterpoint to the film essay work ‘midnight, mid-Atlantic…’  by presenting both matter-of-fact and mythologized views of the Icelandic landscape.

In the series ‘Signs That Mean Nothing’, singular, man-made elements are presented in the landscape, reflecting the implied objective, orthographic nature of the documentary photograph - their linear installation referencing the narrative of the documentary timeline structure. Conversely, the large-scale prints, ‘Gullfoss’ and ‘midnight, mid-Atlantic’, echo the spectacle and grandeur of 19th Century landscape painting and the digitally enhanced cinematography of the Hollywood epic.

Related works:

• Iceland

• midnight, mid-Atlantic… ; film