Reagan Lake
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
take everything in. My work must by an immersive viewing experience for the viewer to fully understand it. The large scale of my work is intentional to conceptualize my ideas. In One Last View, I chose a large-scale print that would allow the viewer to step closer to the edge. In Minutes, again I made a conscious decision that work should be printed true to scale, as I wanted to viewer to be immersed, as I was when I took the photograph.
Elements from environment and reminders to the notion of landscape are particularly recurrent in your imagery and they never plays the role of a mere background. Do you see a definite relationship between environment and your work?
My work uses the landscape a basis to explore conceptual ideas about the history of locations and the notion of absence. When photographing Lost Piers, I was not drawn by the seascape, but the imagination of the piers that once stood there. The viewers can project their own images of the pier onto the landscape. In One Last View, the beauty of the landscape will draw the viewer into the image, however the conceptual ideas behind the photography juxtapose the serenity of the landscape.
The power of visual arts and especially of photography in the contemporary age is enormous: at the same time, the role of the viewer’ s disposition and attitude is equally important. Both our minds and our bodies need to actively
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