Images on Icebergs
I learn about land and water and my relationship to them through the work that I create. In the past, this understanding has inspired me to create sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, musical instruments, performance art, and photography. I am now translating this understanding through digital photography. Digital media has the power to translate information into new forms. This project involved research and exploration while developing a body of work that makes inner connections with people and places through the art that I create. Through creating art with digital photography, I am able to understand my relationship with nature.
Images on Icebergs exemplifies living in an environment where land and water meet. This project helped me to come to terms with the land and water in the area in which I lived. It encouraged me to create a body of work in which icebergs are the framework, the catalyst for creation. My relationship to landscape has inspired me to create photographically for over thirty years. Images on Icebergs is a series of digital photographs of rocks, water, trees, and icebergs in Newfoundland. Icebergs are a transient part of the Newfoundland landscape. An iceberg is like a new canvas on which the art can happen. They are like sculptures floating by, requesting my artistic engagement. I have painted with digital photographs on sculptural forms. The process of superimposing Newfoundland images of rocks, water, and trees on photographs of icebergs generates a fusion of land and water. A necessary part of this project involved research on the history, type, formation, and movement of icebergs. I have also gained a greater understanding of the landscape in which I lived by travelling around Newfoundland to photograph.
The Images on Icebergs photographs are colour archival quality giclée prints.
Kathy received financial support for her Images on Icebergs exhibition from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, City of St. John’s, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Laurentian University (publication/exhibition), Sudbury for exhibitions at the R.C.A. Visual Gallery, St. John’s, NL and Laurentian University.
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