2024
Cutoffs: Seas and Skies (I, II), 2024
Collage with inkjet prints on photo paper
Part of my practice involves working with leftovers and offcuts of my previous projects. For these two works, I have used cutoffs left over from my process of working on the collages at the Croatian Pavilion. I have gone through many boxes of offcuts I keep from my different collage projects – a kind of a treasure hunt – to find cutoffs of seas and skies. Many of these pieces of the sky and the sea feature Venice, but some also come from photographs I have taken in other cities. I have brought these fragments together to make imaginary landscapes – comprising seas and skies from different places, taken at different times, in different conditions. They become imaginary, impossible landscapes and horizons, amalgamations of time and space – spaces of possibility, dreaming, and parallel realities, drawn from “real places” but transformed into something fantastical. As well as imaginary landscapes, the works also speak to the impossibility of capturing landscape in an image or a photograph – grasping and representing seas and skies always feels like a foolhardy effort, as their magnitude evades our ability to take them in fully.
