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 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.
      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.