EROSION
A stone scarred, fractured, broken and bent into its current shape by the oceans. Collected on Portobello beach Edinburgh circa 2010-2014. Stone 6cm x
5cm x 4cm - 114g.
A pebble eroded by the ocean revealing the cartography of time. Collected on Portobello beach Edinburgh circa 2010-2014. Pebble 3cm x 2cm x 3 cm - 15g.
A rock from halfway between the top surface and the riverbed of the Grand Canyon United States of America. Collected by Anna Hawkins 2018. Rock fragment 9cm x 3cm x 4cm - 95g.
Each image in this sequence is constructed from approximately 20-50 separate images. Some images are a composite of 50 images. Each 16-bit individual capture is around 600Mb x 50 this equal around 30Gb of data for one image.
What you are looking at is 50 images as a singular image. There are multiple focal points. Sliced focus where the depth of field is extremely narrow and is the point from which diverging rays appear to proceed.
A pebble eroded by the ocean revealing the cartography of time. Collected on Portobello beach Edinburgh circa 2010-2014. Pebble 3cm x 2cm x 3 cm - 15g.
A rock from halfway between the top surface and the riverbed of the Grand Canyon United States of America. Collected by Anna Hawkins 2018. Rock fragment 9cm x 3cm x 4cm - 95g.
Each image in this sequence is constructed from approximately 20-50 separate images. Some images are a composite of 50 images. Each 16-bit individual capture is around 600Mb x 50 this equal around 30Gb of data for one image.
What you are looking at is 50 images as a singular image. There are multiple focal points. Sliced focus where the depth of field is extremely narrow and is the point from which diverging rays appear to proceed.
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This work
has a correlation with the work of visual educationalist Gyorgy Kepes whose
series of textbooks Education of Vision analysed how we look
at the world.
"In a life torn by directionless dynamics, that worships mere activity and disregard’s purpose and value, I need meaning and tranquillity.”
“I suspect the ego-dominated visual exercises in personality competition. I am searching for those low-energy experiences which, in their subdued scale, allow more embracing patterns of order. I am seeking affinities between my complete moments and the patterns of my surroundings"
(Gyorgy Kepes, "Comments," University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1952], p. 202.)
Photography Malcolm Brown 2023-2024.