Scotland
I spent 14 days of intensive photographic research taking 10,000 photographs while travelling around the coast of Scotland. This includes the incredible architecture in ancient cities; amazing, magical landscapes of heather shrouded moorlands, expansive glens with grass covered hills and lowlands, and black and red mountains; and magnificent castles. Scotland is a part of my cultural heritage. This series of photographs is a merging of my artistic and academic skills as a visual arts researcher. It is similar to grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) used for my academic research wherein I let Scotland tell me what photographs needed to be taken and my photographic eye knew when to take the photograph from my years of experience as a photographer.
Each of the photographs tells a visual story. As I continuously edited my photographs for months while making files in folders, I asked myself: What was my experience of Scotland? How can I represent this experience so that it has the feeling of what each inspiring photograph had when I took the shot? It is a reliving and recreating of experience while working with specialty silver papers and creating triptychs, diptychs and other layouts to photographically tell the stories. The 19 limited edition colour archival quality giclée photographic prints are the result of my photographic Scotland experience.
Kathy received financial support for her Scotland exhibition at the Stopciati Gallery, Sudbury, Ontario from Laurentian University (publication/exhibition) and the Ontario Arts Council.
Please see the following URLs for Kathy’s videos and other websites:
https://laurentian.ca/videos-visual-artists-greater-sudbury
