Terence Munday Artist Statement
My practise investigates visual strategies for photographically representing natural phenomena. It seeks to re-sensitise the viewer to the significance of natural phenomena through focusing attention on the detail and nuance displayed by local natural events. These events take time to reveal themselves and often involve sustained periods of occupation at specific locations that I consider to be conducive to the presentation of the aesthetic I am seeking to document. Currently my efforts are confined to a minimal number sites to enable more detailed observation of the fluctuating impact of light and wind on watery surfaces. This is an aesthetic modified by variables such as wind speed and direction, tidal variation, river flow, time of day, cloud density, variation in swell pattern and the constant of local topography. My practise explores the manner in which choice of camera, lenses, focal length, exposure time and computer software all affect representational outcomes.
Ronald Hepburn describes how the modern artist has moved away from original concerns with the imitation and representation of the natural environment, to the creation of new objects that may be contemplated in their own right, and are more expressive of the inner landscape of the human psyche. My practise places an emphasis on returning to those original concerns with imitation of nature, and at the same time, amplifies my subjective response through aesthetic choices involving framing, scale, and detail that is constantly modified by the passage of time.
My practise investigates visual strategies for photographically representing natural phenomena. It seeks to re-sensitise the viewer to the significance of natural phenomena through focusing attention on the detail and nuance displayed by local natural events. These events take time to reveal themselves and often involve sustained periods of occupation at specific locations that I consider to be conducive to the presentation of the aesthetic I am seeking to document. Currently my efforts are confined to a minimal number sites to enable more detailed observation of the fluctuating impact of light and wind on watery surfaces. This is an aesthetic modified by variables such as wind speed and direction, tidal variation, river flow, time of day, cloud density, variation in swell pattern and the constant of local topography. My practise explores the manner in which choice of camera, lenses, focal length, exposure time and computer software all affect representational outcomes.
Ronald Hepburn describes how the modern artist has moved away from original concerns with the imitation and representation of the natural environment, to the creation of new objects that may be contemplated in their own right, and are more expressive of the inner landscape of the human psyche. My practise places an emphasis on returning to those original concerns with imitation of nature, and at the same time, amplifies my subjective response through aesthetic choices involving framing, scale, and detail that is constantly modified by the passage of time.
