Landscape sans Memoire
Landscape sans mémoire originated through two 2019 Artist in Residence programs and images I captured through enacting and walking the landscape of Bruny and Maria Islands, Cradle Mountain Wilderness and South-East Coastline of Tasmania.
The images selected in Landscape Sans Memoire, for Photo-Access Gallery, Canberra 2020 Exhibition promoting future thinking and valuing of the human experience and the natural world. The serendipitous timing of working on these themes over the last years, confronted by the impact of COVID 19 on our world, juxtaposes contemplation of where humanity is heading. Despite decades of thinking into the deep ecological connections between our own existence and the ecology of every other living thing on Earth, our planet is poised like no other time in human memory.
Within these works Martin uses a fusion of iPhoneography, found paper image printed on varying materials to reflect the fragmented state of our planet during this period.
The exploration, interpreting and recontextualising the relationship of body to landscape and memory and continues her long interest in the social psyche, in thoughts, feelings, and behaviours influenced by the actual or imagined state of being.
