Developing the project Found

I am starting to realise how important the project Found is as a foil to my thoughts on the project Lost.  I don’t think that I could interrogate Lost to the depths I am thinking about without being able to put those thoughts back into a box (metaphorically and literally) and forget about them awhile whilst I consider some of my current thoughts on life and where I fit in by considering what I call my newly found mature sensibility towards Land.  As an autobiographical reflection this project has thus become my comfort blanket of the things I now ‘find’ myself thinking about.

The following six images are, therefore, both a comparative reflection of my life’s worries and concerns today, whilst also being a contrasting foil in style, subject matter and message, when compared with the project Lost.  They are pictorial in their aesthetic style yet are of subjects that aren’t typically chosen for their instrumental beauty.  I am trying to highlight within them the intrinsic beauty of Land’s struggle for survival within its own environment.  At the moment I have chosen the following six images to portray this focus, but as this progresses I will need to think about ways in which I can enhance the message within – I have some thoughts about this but I will leave that for a later post, perhaps:

     

     

Lost and Found

As I am getting back into things I have been looking through photos I made for my projects before I took a break and have been looking for interesting connections between them.  These two images below then came to mind which I think help to summarise an important distinction between my two main project: Lost and Found.

Lost Land

This image below signifies the type of concern I had for Land when I was a child, which is now lost – a land of hidden dens and play.

Found Land

This following image signifies the type of concern I now have for Land – a found sensibility for the conservation of Land.