Time is captured by the negative that I set in movement. I set a limit, I establish a precise time, and I provide a season. Past, immediately recorded, forms a ghostly spaces of the, what was, what will never be, what I remember. Here and now, light, silver crystals and moment engage in a dance of the instant. And yet, it is past. Only shadowy spaces will reveal themselves on the surface. These are only shadows that appear, here and there, reminding me of the objects/subjects of the past. This alteration of reality transports and grants me stories. I look at them, I remember them, I listen to them, I feel them. They will guide me towards another place that I wish to visit, but that only exists by the shadows revealed by the silver crystal dance in the image. Finally, they will live in the present as representations. I expose them for the other. I am only a builder of images / memories / past stories. On a plate, I hold a portion of one of these frail landscapes, filled with tenderness and memories. I can only offer it its past I can only offer it to the other.
My photographic landscapes are stories of the past that must never fade out; they are an engagement of nature and culture. With these images, I want to banish the boundaries between spectator/nature without entrenching on this land that already has multiple scars. I want to show the silent landscape; the silence that edifies its force. With these deafen landscapes, stories and memories bustle and provoke landmarks. The then represented landscapes show themselves differently than their own physical nature by the culture that has transformed them. By viewing the images of these reformulated natural states, we can then try and understand the culture that transformed them.
The landscape I photograph and the land in which I live in are both culturally significant, as is the way I relate to them, as photographer and as habitat. If I can say that nature & culture = landscape and that landscape photography is part of cultural representations, then I can begin a dialogue between photography and landscape.
