Artist statement: Time is almost frozen here. Compressed into a narrow zip, the panorama hones our perceptions – our visual and psychological reading of landscape – focussing us on the vacant detail and emotions conveyed.
Being a poetic fragment of memory and time, growing up in Canberra during the 1970s, that physical stretch of space, somewhat empty and bristling with resilience against the elements, acted as a kind of underbelly to my panoramas.
Memories of growing up beside Lake George, travelling beside it regularly, have always beckoned me to record it.
It is the ethereal quality I have captured once and cannot capture again that gives it a spiritual quality for me, a haunting, a longing.
The mystery of Lake George beckons especially at twilight.
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