Dod dog agog above the Sea of Fog, 2023. C-Type Photographs, 700 x 500mm and 600 x 400mm.
This work was shown at the exhibition, “To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees”, curated by Johnnie Wales at Sogo Gallery, Glasgow.
From short text, written for exhibition catalogue:
Most days I walk the dog up Wanlock Dod, the hill behind our house. It’s high moorland and quite exposed to the elements. For years now I’ve been photographing this same landscape as it continually responds to rapidly evolving weather systems. The heavens part, allowing a shaft of light to illuminate a distant hillside. Snow melts on darker areas of heather, picking out the patchwork effect of muirburn. Rain comes sweeping up the glen in dark, diffused fronts, likely to catch up with us before we get off the hill. With the exception of the proliferation of windfarms gradually encircling us, very little substantive change has impacted this landscape over the past 18 years that I’ve been recording it. However, my perception of it changes immeasurably, in a million different ways, with every slight shift of cloud and light.
This is the first photographic work to be shown, out of a larger body, which will be regarded under the collective title, 'Landscape As Autofiction'.
