Landscape for Orson Wells # 1: Wedge
Just lately I’ve been having a nice time posting all sorts of random things for all sorts of distracted reasons and thats been lots of fun. But time to run another series across the screens of bubbleland…..and that can only mean Infrared images are coming up. I love the dark and mysterious light that can be inticed into being with B/W infrared film…. and yes all my IR work is done the old fashioned way with film….. Kodak High Speed Infrared film to be exact.
This particular series was shot in Sydney some years ago at the old Reschs site on Lachlan Street as it was being demolished to make way for a new housing development in the inner city. I was fascinated with the destruction of all the old buildings and how the hidden backs of structures of were revealed by the rolling waves of demolition. This urban landscape of ruined reality and brand new dreams set in the piles of rubble took on a profoundly mysterious atmosphere and became a landscape setting suitable for colonization by the imagination…...hence the title of the series…..Landscape for Orson Wells….. this one is the first and its the very corner of a building that no longer exists…. except in this photo…..... so it can now be a building anywere you fancy it to be and it can signify any thing that you the viewer would like it to mean…....
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margpie
brilliant, and i love the history behind it, very interesting
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks margpie….. so glad you like it…... there will be a few more of this series over the next few days….... and they are all a bit dark and mysterious…..:)
jemimalovesbigted
This is effing spectacular Juilee! I am in love with how totally moody this is. Brilliant once again =D
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks jem…. this will be a very moody series….. dark and odd….. just the way I like it…...:)
lightsmith
wonderful atmospheric feel to it. Love it to bits.
Juilee Pryor replied
hey thanks lightsmith…. yes you can’t beat film for unpredicable results and this is why I use it….. glad you like this….. :)
Barry W King
stunning work Juliee I love this piece a great deal…has an ominous feel to it for me…( that’s a good thing ) :)
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Barry it does have a strong feel to it this image maybe sort of spooky or other worldly rather than really ominous ….... and that does not have to be a bad thing…... its about a landscape of an imagined place…..
Bjørn Gjelsten
your search for light never stops to fascinate me….
maybe your fascination for IR is because you see the light others can’t see…
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Bjorn…... yes sometimes I think I want to see what’s behind the light… what can’t be seen…. only felt….. that is really what I want to do with the IR shots I do …try and understand the light a little better….. thanks heaps for your wonderful comment…...
Linda Ridpath
Streuth!!!! very imposing and overpowering image, well done you!
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Linda….. I”m so glad you like it…...:)
Mark Ramstead
I like the way you think, and this looks. : )
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks heaps MtnMan….. always looking for the light I guess is my thing ….glad you like it…...:)
berndt2
There’s definitely something about this image : it’s like some massive concrete and steel ocean liner ploughing through above the viewer. Very cool
Juilee Pryor replied
hey wow thats a great comment…. and yes it has its own thing going on this building…... the angles and desolation of it…..... so glad you like it…...:)
butchart
it feels like another planet or definitely another time…. the light is quite surreal…........good on you…...b
Juilee Pryor replied
hi there you…. yes this is most defintity another reality… a just ever so slightly different one….. a bit darker and may be even a little lighter as well…..... glad you like it…...:)
H M Bascom
You know if you put these in a show, you will become famous instantly! This is marvelous. I feel as if I am right there standing in the shadow of the building, gazing upward. Great work.
Juilee Pryor replied
wow Helen that is a wonderful comment….. I’d love to show these and be instantly famous….. how cool would that be hey…..:).... and I’m so glad it makes you feel as if your there….that is mostly what I aim for with my images….. to give people my eyes for a bit…so they can see what I see…... thanks heaps you….:)
Rhana Griffin
OMFG!!! This is so damn cool! Reminds me of the end-of-the-world dreams I have. No no! That’s a GOOD thing! I love my end-of-the-world dreams… they are so full of darkness and drama, like this image… all the right ingredients for the birth of a hero.
Love this Juilee!
Juilee Pryor replied
hey thanks Rhana….. I’m having a nice time with this old forgotten body of work…...:)
BrainCandy
The entire series is just brilliant! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!
Juilee Pryor replied
hey thanks BrainCandy….. amazing what you can find on your PC sometimes…... I’m so glad you like this series…. its a bit old but its still works quite well really….... :)
Paul Vanzella
what a great visual feast – love the orson wells series Juilee… they sit in just a perfect aesthetic space for me!
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks heaps Paul…. I really like to work in series like this and it’s just great that you viewed all six of them…... that is the only way to really inhabit the aesthetic space they deserve….... I can imagine them as large prints on a gallery somewhere…....
your comments are wonderful to recieve so thanks again for stopping by and having a look at what I’ve been up too…......good one…......:)
Linda Ridpath
black and white is so powerful…....
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks heaps Linda…. and yes black and white is soooo powerful….. I love it…..:)
Christine Wilson
love the feeling of this series of shots very dramatic almost alien
Juilee Pryor replied
hi Christine and thanks heaps… for taking the time to really look at a whole series of work….. and yes the IR film and a wide angle lens and my own peculiar perspective make this otherwise mundane demolision scence something else…. really really glad to find you have taken the time to view these…. I really like this set of images and am really glad that you do too…....:)