Untitled walk #1 (absent gesture) & #2 (vague silence)2013
Artist statement: In the winter of 1974 director Werner Herzog embarked on an epic journey to walk from Munich to Paris. This gesture was an attempt to restore health to his dying mentor Lotte Eisner. Herzog believed that by arriving on foot to her bedside she would survive the horrible sickness that had overtaken her.
Last year I embarked on my own series of walks documenting the action through the slow exposure of a negative. Single sheets of large-format colour film were attached across my chest for the duration of six individual walks. Using negative film these camera-less images were allowed to develop making impressions of the environmental influences of a landscape; as well as the physical and psychological response to moving through the terrain.
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