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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

These Dark Days

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.
after the deluge

These Dark Days is a black-and-white walking series made in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with a mobile phone, using intentional camera movement and low-light blur. Moving through shade, foliage, infrastructure and uncertain routes, the works turn the city into an unsettled landscape of thresholds, shadows, weather and partial recognition.

dark days irl

it’s unsustainable, yet here we are,
days, weeks, months, and years without proper nourishment,
creating, sharing, connecting, supporting
while algorithms split apart,
paying plays to power
and rising seas drown many,
yet here, we are treading water,
survivors of an unsinkable ship
slipping below waves,
our void hands wait, dragging us down

  • Black-and-white image with a pale sky above a dark foreground and a narrow central stream of light suggesting a river.
    a dark river

  • Pale black-and-white image with a bright upper field and a dense cluster of ghosted marks across the middle ground.
    lost souls

  • Dark black-and-white image with a low band of scattered bright marks and faint reflections beneath, crossed by soft vertical streaks.
    they move with intent
  • Black-and-white image of a large blurred tree trunk and branches, with pale ground, faint fence forms and fallen logs below.
    broken down
  • Blurred black-and-white palm-like foliage sweeps diagonally across a pale grey field, with darker spiky clusters and soft movement throughout.
    waving by
  • Dark black-and-white image with faint roof-like forms, a pale glow at right, and a few ghosted vertical lines suggesting built structures.
    city on the hill
  • Black-and-white abstract image with two pale light-bearing forms separated by a narrow central passage in a dark field.
    a path between hills

  • Blurred black-and-white image with a dark central vertical form, faint scattered light marks, and pale glowing shapes in the lower left.
    palmistry

  • Misty black-and-white roadside scene with a dark car, faint trees and buildings dissolving into pale grey haze.
    rising seas

  • Blurred black-and-white image with a dark tree or foliage mass sweeping across a pale horizontal band of light.
    atmospheric idylls

  • Blurred black-and-white image of tall palm-like trunks and soft feathery foliage rising through a pale misty background.
    dream jungle
  • Dark black-and-white image with a pale central burst of light rising upward against a nearly black ground.
    valley forge
  • Dark black-and-white abstract image with cloud-like black forms and a broken pale light opening near the centre.
    dark night
  • 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
  • Blurred black-and-white image with two palm-like forms on the right and a bright hazy space with scattered light across the centre.
    pom-pom parade
  • Black-and-white image with a pale misty upper field and a stream of scattered light running forward through a dark foreground.
    streaming light

  • Very dark black-and-white abstract image with faint pale feather-like marks across the lower field and soft vertical smears in shadow.
    feathers

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