Transforming Landscapes
This is a guest post by Kate Hutchinson. Kate is a fellow Montreal photographer and good friend. I asked her to share some of her insights and inspirations and delighted that she agreed to. Hope you enjoy her post just as much as I did!
Recently I have become quite interested in artists who make changes to their environments and come away with photographs of these changes. Such interventions can be sculptural and time-consuming projects that require great mastery of the materials, or simple and playful uses of everyday objects. Either way they are most often fleeting since these artistic transformations of everyday landscapes occur outside the protected spaces of studios and galleries. Literally leaving their mark on our shared spaces these artists also need to have a sense of how their interventions will translate onto a two dimensional plane in the resulting photographs. Gabriel Orozco’s Island within an island is one of the best examples of how well this way of seeing can work (pictured below). Other favorites are Andy Goldsworthy (the movie Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides is a must see) and more recent discoveries Alejandra Laviada and William Lamson. I am hoping to try some of this kind of work myself in the coming months.
©Gabriel Orozco
©Andy Goldsworthy
©Alejandra Laviada
©William Lamson
About Kate Hutchinson
©Kate Hutchinson
Kate was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1977, and has been a resident of Montreal, Canada for the majority of her years. She has studied photography at Mount Allison University and Dawson College and is currently pursuing her MFA at Concordia University. In October of 2008 Kate Hutchinson had her first solo show, “Why am I marrying him?” at the Visual Voice Gallery in Montreal.
You can find more of Kate’s work on her website and her photoblog.
About Aislinn
Aislinn Leggett is a Montreal-based photographer. You can learn more about her work on her website and on her personal blog. You can also follow her Twitter @aislinnleggett and on Facebook.
