"Myopic Visions-Italian Landscapes by Scott Brightwell"
2002-10-13 until 2002-11-01
photoza
Johannesburg, , ZA South Africa

"As a child I was always fascinated with biology and technology, the products of nature and man. The questioning of my place and purpose within these realms is the driving force behind my creative pursuits. My early work reflects a fascination with the lens formed image and the tension between that image on the two dimensional plane and how it exists in a three dimensional world." - Scott Brightwell

"5 years ago I transferred my home to central Italy. This new landscape, with dramatic light and soft pastel palettes, inspired a reawakening to experience the landscape through the lens formed image. In this ongoing body of work, I have continued the exploration of the soft ethereal world produced from small 'low-fi' technologies (plastic and antique lenses). These images have been produced without looking through the viewfinder thus these worlds are felt from the landscape relying on my presence and intuitive response to the changing world without reference from the eye. This exploration of intuitive images in the Italian landscape, through fresh eyes, mimics my own nearsighted childhood, my childhood myopia."

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