'Something really does happen to most people who go into the North. The ''North,'' he explained, is often uncomfortable; there are dangers of strange mannerisms, there is a fear of getting lost; but there are also the challenges of creating, in isolation, a new understanding of things.’ Glenn Gould, composer and pianist.
Edge lands is a series of imagined places created from collages of the Arctic and Antarctic (from photographs I took during artists residencies there) , ends of rolls of film, and other ‘edges’. I combine the photographs manually by cutting and gluing – I don’t want to hide the human hand in their making.
The trees in the photographs are of the some of the last Arctic birch trees inside the Artic circle before the land opens up to the empty expanse of Tundra.
Much as I might fold a piece of paper in half and bring the edges together, I have tried to do the same geographically with the opposite ends of the world with this body of work, creating new places which are both real and imagined, untouched and touched.
