Photographs of Scarecrows
Scarecrow is an artist’s reaction of moving from the bright lights of the city to the pitch black of the country, a blackness so dark all you can see is your imagination, like in an isolation tank.
The scarecrow stares out of the blackness, startled by the presence of a flash, awakened and intrigued, it waits to be asked, but what do you ask? Are they stuck in a moment of time, discarded completely from the mind of the maker, whose only purpose of build is function, trapped in that one state of being until release comes in the form of destruction? The infinite blackness of the past, the invisible vastness of the future, the scarecrow stands forever in that single moment, watching, absorbing, wondering when will it be me? From the city to the country, an observation of everyday life, placing new meaning on to old tradition, empathising with the static and traditional; what is new is old.
Scarecrow are digital prints on archive paper made in 2010-14.
The scarecrow stares out of the blackness, startled by the presence of a flash, awakened and intrigued, it waits to be asked, but what do you ask? Are they stuck in a moment of time, discarded completely from the mind of the maker, whose only purpose of build is function, trapped in that one state of being until release comes in the form of destruction? The infinite blackness of the past, the invisible vastness of the future, the scarecrow stands forever in that single moment, watching, absorbing, wondering when will it be me? From the city to the country, an observation of everyday life, placing new meaning on to old tradition, empathising with the static and traditional; what is new is old.
Scarecrow are digital prints on archive paper made in 2010-14.
