IUNUUS

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City: Frankston
Country: Australia

Joined: Jul 2007

i still remember the first photograph i had an interest in. i may have been only two years old. the man who turned the
picture in the camera into a picture on paper showed my family the images, came to the last one, which he’d purposefully kept until then, and said words to the effect that the one i had been waiting to see was defective and just a blur. he winked toward me as if to say ” you f*ckdup ”. the glimpse that i got of it was the streak of dandelion yellow in a smear of lush green grass. i don’t think that i ever saw it again.

since then, i have shot the odd image (35mm, polaroid, digital) of what happens to be in some kind of focal proximity (heads, bodies, clouds, a sordid urbanity …) at some moment, some time … ( mostly in-around melbourne) these eventually get incorporated into – grafik materials – appropriative, (re-)konstruktiw aesthetic agencements in a kind of enceptual image training thing.

flora and fauna shots – some of the former of which tend toward or stem from documentary requirements, an identificational program … others from/toward aesthetic desiderata; usually quite small, hard to get at, in capricious lighting and conditions well-defended (by thorns, stinging ants, voracious mosquitos, butcher birds …) , or latterly very shy, small, fast moving subjects … most of which are taken over a roughly twenty hectare area (near Frankston on the Mornington Peninsula) containing some degree of remnant vegetation, but mostly weeded-out, so called “nature reserves”. the fauna in these parts is severely reduced also (several suspected echidnas & bandicoots, an anecdotal snake, a few tawny frogmouths, kookaburras, butcher birds, bronze wing pidgeons, a handful of blue tongue lizards, the ring- and brush- tail possums … are the largest indigenous fauna around here to survive the assaults of man).