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Back to the Beginning of “Plant”

2012-09-16 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

These are the shots that started it all.

I found the langscape (speaking land) elegant, simple and quite poetic. These two photographs set the tone for the entire project. The first version of these were made in 2005 while I was vacationing in Burgeo. In passing, a stay in Burgeo and Ramea in highly recommended, it is a beautiful area. The shots were initially taken using a medium format camera with black and white film. The images had an dynamic conversation with each other that created a great narrative but the optical perspective was much more dramatic than necessary and gave this great narrative too much of a “at-the-bottom-looking-up” perspective. I knew I would have to revisit this place with my large format camera; a large format camera would allow me to correct perspective issues since its lens and picture planes are adjustable. I also knew that there was a project here, and I began to develop a methodology and an “ethic” for the work.

Then the opportunity to engage in the CURRA came up and I was able to develop a strategy and set to work on the project. Such projects take a long time, first there is the travelling and shooting, making initial prints and sequences; then returning to the sites to see what I missed, hopefully catch better light and re-photograph details that I felt I could better represent in order to remain true to the “ethic” of the work. Then there is the slow process of editing, the selection of images is where the real work lies; it asks for the ability to turn one’s back on images that are much liked but that skew the balance wanted in the completed work. Then it is the job of printing consistently to make sure to carry tone throughout the work.

Burgeo, Looking Out

Burgeo, Looking Out – Burgeo NL, 2007-2009

Burgeo, Looking In

Burgeo, Looking In – Burgeo NL, 2007-2009

There it is. The door is the same in both photographs. We know we are looking at the same structure. In one image we see a suggestion of a community through the open door; the other presents us with a harbour and a wild looking landscape. We see that the door is in-between two places; it is limnal, transitional. The structure is industrial, its function unclear but very evidently industrial. The mind connects these two images and even on the most superficial level sees a relationship between industry, culture (community) and resources.

It is here that I want to project to operate; it is evident that the work deals with fish plants and communities in Western Newfoundland but contextualising it as discourse around industry and community speaks to sustainable development in a broader more global manner. This discourse is taking place everywhere that economies rely on natural resources.

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Posted in: Fish Plants, Langscape Tagged: CURRA, Fish Plants, Industrial Architecture, Langscape

Busy Fall Coming for the Fish Plants

2012-09-02 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

The CURRA symposium is coming soon and so is the Fishing for the Future Film Festival, both in Norris Point. It will also be the premiere of my fish plant work. I have finally come up with a title, simple but somehow evocative: “Plant”. It suggests growth at first glance. Below, a few outtakes. I was quite amused with the sight of cod drying on a cod pot in Trout river. I did the shot in colour (digital) too, but somehow I like the pathos in this one more since it is more subdued.

 

Cod on Crab Pot - Trout River NL, 2010

Cod on Crab Pot – Trout River NL, 2010

I am quite excited at finally getting to see the work up. I am hoping to show it in multiple sites in the community of Norris Point. It is really only when we see the work up on its own and being handed over to a public that we get any sense of how well the work went. We are always sure of our methodologies, skill sets and creative instincts; but it is only when the work enters into a dialogue that the work actually gains a sense of conclusion.

Burnt Islands NL, 2009

Burnt Islands NL, 2009

Trout River NL, 2010

Trout River NL, 2010

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Posted in: Fish Plants, Langscape Tagged: CURRA, Fish Plants, Industrial Architecture, Langscape

Bleu I – [la couleur]

2012-09-02 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

[Par]fois vaut-il pas mieux [re]tenir le souffle?

 

Ark - Noah in the sky

Ark – Noah in the sky :: St. John’s NL, 02011

Pour une bonne durée*

 

Reception [study for sound]

Reception [study for sound] :: Upper Island Cove NL, 02011

voilà.

*rien à voir avec le temps comme concept {pop}ulaire.

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Posted in: 23, Journal, Langscape, Sound Tagged: 23, Bergson, Journal, Langscape, Photography, Ruminations, Slow Travel

Refra(le)ction

2012-08-31 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

Swimming, it was my favourite thing to do my whole life. Until the last couple of years where I have developed an odd aversion to it, though I still really enjoy being in the water. I would swim almost every day and, in the summer, I could not wait to find a pond, a river or an ocean to jump into. Really, it seems to be the quiet…

Piscine [Grand Cru]

Piscine [Grand Cru] :: St. Petersburg FL, 02012

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A great awesome silence where you get to hear your body’s workings, oddly amplified by water vibration. A silence that has a beat and a rhythm that can be controlled with a bit of concentration. Sped up a beat or two per minute, then slowed down; the breath becoming a longer harmonic sequence. A rush of air through a pipe, a much longer loop. Then there are odd muffled sounds coming from “outside”. Quiet does not necessarily mean the absence of sound, it is more a question of the opportunity to hear those sounds that don’t cry for quite as much attention.

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Pond Song

Pond Song :: Beaver Pond NL, 02012

Images of that quiet; images that make the sound of quiet.

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Posted in: Journal, Langscape Tagged: Brian Massumi, Journal, Langscape, Texture
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