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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

ICM

ICM gathers photographs made through intentional camera movement, long exposure, walking, reflected light and shifting perception.

  • A black-and-white abstract photograph from Arcadia Shakes, with dark forest forms framing a pale central clearing and layered white light trails dancing across the middle ground.
    Light scratch dance, over forest clearing

  • Abstract colour street photograph with a dark scaffold-like mass dominating the left and a shadowed retaining wall on the right. Pale grey, blue and Naples yellow sky and cloud blur into an impasto-like painted surface.
    Scaffold (Naples Yellow)
  • Blurred square photograph of a dark mass of vegetation or ground cover. Scattered across its surface are numerous small, bright orange-red sparks or glowing points, with faint diagonal streaks of pale blue-grey light crossing the upper background.
    Wild Fires

  • A black-and-white abstract photograph from Arcadia Shakes, with a blurred building above a dense band of tangled white light trails and a dark streaked foreground below.
    Falling blocks, a shaking swarming swirling

  • Dense black-and-white vegetation scene with blurred grasses, branches, lens distortion and pale streaks opening into bright light at the upper right.
    wild landscape

  • Abstract colour street photograph of a crowded city scene with blurred pedestrians, floating yellow lights and layered text. Pale lilac, blue, cream and white tones dominate, turning the busy street into a soft pastel haze.
    Lilac Street (Pastel Shades)

Galleries

Black-and-white abstract urban landscape with a blurred treeline above, a heavy dark mass at right, and a band of looping white light trails streaming across the middle ground.

Sun Glints

Abstract colour street photograph with a vivid chrome-yellow band sweeping from the foreground towards the centre. Blurred road lines, repeated fragments of “NOT IN SERVICE”, dark buildings and a yellow-orange façade stretch through the city scene.

The Painted City

Blurred image of a large green tree against a pale blue sky, with golden light around either side, looping yellow light traces near the middle, and a dark green-black foreground below.

Atmospherics & Impressions

Abstract blurred photograph of orange and yellow flowers against dark green foliage, with pale blue and pink areas near the top and radiating motion softening the blooms into glowing colour.

The Flower Garden

An abstract photograph with a large pale blue and lavender wave-like form sweeping across the frame, bordered by bright fractured light trails and softer mauve and violet tones.

Compression Landscapes

Blurred black-and-white scene with dark palm-like trees at right, pale misty light at left, and scattered bright specks across a dark foreground.

These Dark Days

Vertical black-and-white photograph centred on a large tree trunk, boughs and canopy. Circular camera movement transforms background light into repeated pale loops and rounded forms surrounding the broad, dark central structure.

Intentional Movement