BLAIRGOWRIE PAPERWORK
Poignant and abstract. Casual groupings poised to take a jump into a cooling rock pool
below or climb spiky rocks to gain higher ground. Kids and adults frown in the
burning light and lose their edges in the sprayed over terrain. What
interested here was the tenuous foothold and the raised
arms of climbers trying to balance. Classic contraposto poses mixed with
outdoor family tableaux. The
soft edge haze of these images is now a signature atmosphere rendering figures
as icons rather than fixed identities. As people enact the beach ritual of climbing and jumping I think of Mantegna’s
shallow space friezes. The open sky becomes a mural with actors,
there
as a backdrop for all who pass through it.
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| Stephen Hennessy © 2012 |
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| Stephen Hennessy © 2012 |
