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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

Remains

Black-and-white overhead photograph of a worn work glove folded on rough dark pavement, with padded fingers gathered together, a turned-back cuff, visible creases, dirt and worn fabric.
Glove
Black-and-white overhead photograph of a small cluster of pale flowers lying on rough pavement, with gathered flower heads, crossed stems and a dry strip of plant material partly wrapped around them.
Bouquet

Remains gathers black-and-white photographs of found fragments, stains, leaves and animal remains encountered along repeated urban routes. Sitting beside Crush, it shifts attention from compressed packaging towards things washed together, left exposed or caught between recognition and disappearance. Heavy rain draws loose matter into gutters and roadsides, turning the pavement into a cabinet of curiosities where accidental assemblages and collages briefly suggest narrative or action.

Across the sequence, fragments become maps, leaves suggest flight, stains open into landscapes, and bones, feathers and wings hover between stillness and movement. The photographs suspend these forms between object, evidence and image, allowing the ordinary, the macabre and the darkly comic to occupy the same ground without treating the fragments as complete evidence or fixing their meanings.

The series remains open, shaped by repeated routes, weather and seasonal return. What appears discarded, fallen or finished can briefly become figure, landscape, tableau or gesture, with flight recurring as both movement and memory.

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of three decayed, vein-like leaves overlapping on dark gritty ground, their stems and spread shapes suggesting a small bird or moth in flight.
    Leaf Litter I (Takes Flight)
  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of decomposed bird remains on rough wet asphalt. Matted feathers surround a pale broken central mass, while darker wing and feather structures droop outward and down across the stones.
    Cloak of Feathers
    Black-and-white overhead photograph of bird remains on rough wet asphalt, with a pale decayed body section, dark feathers rising in a vertical fan and a broken leg with a clawed foot extending to the right.
    Stepping Out

  • Black-and-white photograph of dead bird remains on rough asphalt, with a dark wing spread to the left, a broken central body, visible head and beak, loose feathers and a clawed foot extending to the right.
    Splashdown

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of a pigeon flattened by traffic on dark asphalt, with a torn body, exposed pale feathering, scattered white down and dark wings extending towards the lower left and upper right.
    Flying High

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of wet twigs, leaves, small blossoms and plant debris gathered in flowing water beside a rough road edge, forming a loose angular pile.
    Bonfire
    Black-and-white overhead photograph of a dead bird on rough asphalt, with one wing spread to the right, darker feathers splayed to the left, visible beak, exposed remains and thin legs.
    Dance Macabre
  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of a detached bird wing on dark mottled concrete, showing its pale underside, overlapping feather layers, long flight feathers and damaged joint at the upper left.
    Flap
    Black-and-white overhead photograph of the darker upper side of a detached bird wing on mottled concrete, with layered feathers, a long central shaft, patterned markings and a damaged joint at the upper left.
    Flap Flap
  • Black and white photo of a decomposed hare carcass on dark asphalt, fur and bones forming a shape resembling a map outline.
    Map of Great Britain I
  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of a dead baby bird fallen from its nest and twisted on rough asphalt. Its legs and clawed feet cross above the body, while dark pin feathers and damaged wing structures cover the lower half.
    Black-and-white overhead photograph of a dead baby bird fallen from its nest, low in the frame on dark asphalt. Pale down surrounds exposed skin, a folded wing and one clawed foot, with narrow fallen leaves scattered nearby.

    Tumble Down, Down, Down I – II

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of a tangled mass of dark feathers among pale cut grass, with several long feathers extending downward and softer curled feather structures gathered near the centre.
    Wing

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of a dead bird lying in water on dark asphalt, with a pale liquid outline around the body, visible feathers, one extended leg and claw, and wet road texture surrounding it.
    Roadrunner

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of a dead bird flattened on rough asphalt, with dark folded plumage, a narrow tail, a small visible beak and fallen leaves lying around it like a loose wreath.
    Tabula
    Black-and-white overhead photograph of pale fallen leaves and a crushed drink can on rough asphalt, with circular can ends, folded aluminium, visible leaf veins, dirt marks and small tears.
    Rasa
  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of two crushed Monster energy drink cans on dark asphalt beside patches of grass, with printed claw-mark graphics, crumpled aluminium and long grass stems looping across the ground.
    Black-and-white overhead photograph of a drowned rat on dark asphalt beside a kerb, with pale belly exposed, curled legs, visible head, a long tail extending downward and a small crushed canister nearby.

    Monster Tales I – II

  • Black-and-white photograph of textured concrete with a dark branching stain near the lower centre, transferred directly from wet leaves and resembling a small tree or distant grove, with scattered grit and faint marks around it.
    Black-and-white photograph of concrete divided by a horizontal joint, with several dark stains directly transferred from wet leaves. A larger branching mark appears below the seam and smaller diffuse shapes above, suggesting a sparse forest landscape.
    Black-and-white photograph of pale ridged concrete with a broad dark leaf stain spreading across the lower frame like a wooded ridge, formed through direct transfer from wet plant material, with smaller marks and a thin twig nearby.
    Black-and-white photograph of a dark lobed leaf on textured concrete, with a larger branching contact stain above and to the right, transferred from wet plant material and echoing the leaf’s shape like a shadow or tree canopy.

    Stain (Forest Landscape) I – IV

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of dead bird remains at the edge of rough asphalt, with dark plumage, pale torn feathers, visible head and beak, legs and clawed feet, and pale fallen leaves gathered nearby.
    Guttersnipe Herald

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of a decomposed bird on dark ground, with one wing partly spread, exposed body, extended legs and curled claws, beside a drain cover edged with gathered leaves.
    Dreams of Flight
  • Black and white overhead photo of a dead bird on pavement, surrounded by fallen white blossom and twigs, with a curved twig resembling a crescent moon nearby.
    Bird & Moon

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of decomposed animal remains on dark asphalt, with curved ribs and thin bones extending from a dense dried mass beneath the edge of a pale painted road marking.
    Metamorph

  • Horizontal black-and-white photograph of a run-over pigeon lying on coarse asphalt. Its wings spread unevenly across the upper frame, with pale down and broken feathers exposed around the crushed body
    Ascending Angel

  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of animal bones and decomposed remains forming an irregular island-like shape on a dark wet surface, with a skull, jawbone, long bones, fur, plant debris and small puddles visible.
    Map of Great Britain II
  • Black-and-white overhead photograph of two decayed leaves with exposed vein patterns on dark gritty ground, crossed near the bottom by a long pale twig that makes the arrangement resemble a small landscape.
    Leaf Litter II (Landscape)

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