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Sci Fi Fennel
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, early Winter 2021
Playground outside the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Autumn 2021
Equipment:
Olympus OM10
Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Adobe Photoshop
Sci Fi Fennel
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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 you can see there is a bottle of it as the alien like creatures that have crashed landed going towards it. To reinforce this science fiction setting I had a photograph of fennel cooking in the pan and its unusual shapes have created this liminal focus throughout.
Locations:
Fennel braising in the pan, Glasgow, February 2021
Playground outside the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, September 2021
Equipment:
Olympus om-4
Ilford 35mm
Adobe Photoshop
