Secret worlds are playing out all the time, hiding in plain sight. The theatre of the landscape with all its complex and interdependent systems of life, death and renewal are rendered visible through the poetic refraction of light and shadow. The forest comes alive as a transcendent symphony for the unfolding and eventual cessation of life, as well as its lingering spiritual trace. Bold thresholds of darkness punctured by light. Time and space become impressionistic, abstracted, ambiguous and fleeting. Things form and fall away simultaneously, as the rhythms of night and day give shape to life and decay.
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
