Landscape for Orson Wells # 1: Wedge by Juilee Pryor
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…….
Comments
brilliant, and i love the history behind it, very interesting
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…..:)
– Juilee Pryor
This is effing spectacular Juilee! I am in love with how totally moody this is. Brilliant once again =D
thanks jem…. this will be a very moody series….. dark and odd….. just the way I like it……:)
– Juilee Pryor
wonderful atmospheric feel to it. Love it to bits.
hey thanks lightsmith…. yes you can’t beat film for unpredicable results and this is why I use it….. glad you like this….. :)
– Juilee Pryor
stunning work Juliee I love this piece a great deal…has an ominous feel to it for me…( that’s a good thing ) :)
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…..
– Juilee Pryor
your search for light never stops to fascinate me….
maybe your fascination for IR is because you see the light others can’t see…
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……
– Juilee Pryor
Streuth!!!! very imposing and overpowering image, well done you!
thanks Linda….. I"m so glad you like it……:)
– Juilee Pryor
I like the way you think, and this looks. : )
thanks heaps MtnMan….. always looking for the light I guess is my thing ….glad you like it……:)
– Juilee Pryor
There’s definitely something about this image : it’s like some massive concrete and steel ocean liner ploughing through above the viewer. Very cool
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……:)
– Juilee Pryor
it feels like another planet or definitely another time…. the light is quite surreal………..good on you……b
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……:)
– Juilee Pryor
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.
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….:)
– Juilee Pryor