Nowheres

Influenced by and having an influence on texts written by Tamar Yoseloff, Nowheres is a collection of landscape images which initially I thought I had selected at random. Having collated and arranged them I see that they represent man-made construction in the context of nature, in some cases barely evident and others overwhelmingly so. In some cases the images provide places for a character to inhabit, in others they are a starting point for poetic reflection. The images are not illustrations but reflect something of the environment described in the texts. Each text and each image is discrete and self-contained, but also shares common ground with the others. The notion of environment is wide-ranging: a spatial landscape; a scrubland, as in AL 151; a natural form in its immediate environment, as in Torquay Palm; or a historical document, as in the ruins of Bolus Head. The drawings are presented as fragments rather than traditionally-framed landscapes. This reflects the continuing and open-ended narrative contained in the texts.