A3 print (framed)
Frame size: 54 x 43.3 cm
Image size: 35 x 23.2 cm
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm archival paper
A3 print (unframed)
Image size: 35 x 23.2 cm on A3
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm archival paper
There are lots of details in my work and you often need a second or third look to spot them. During the pandemic, hand sanitiser was low in stock and in this image I enjoyed playing with this fact to create a kind of dystopian landscape which represented our reality at the time. You can see there is a bottle of hand sanitiser with alien-like creatures approaching it. To reinforce the science fiction setting, I used a photograph of fennel cooking in the pan and allowed its unusual shape to create a liminal focus throughout.
The contrast of the real and practical act of cooking fennel as a lens through which to view the strange and otherworldly scene beyond represents the surreal everyday reality of living through a ‘world-changing’ pandemic which would have previously seemed unimaginable to most of us.
Locations:
Fennel cooking in the pan, Glasgow, February 2021
Playground outside the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, September 2021
£90.00 – £160.00
Framed, Unframed
