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Experimental - NOMINEE: JULIA HEURLING
On Reflection
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”On reflection” is part of my ongoing research project “Exploring repetition and meaning through pattern and sequence”. The exhibition shows works from a residency I was invited to by Arctic Culture Lab in Kjøllefjord, Norway, in spring 2017. Combining photography and pattern open up for investigations on visual narrative that lie beyond motifs or content of individual images. Some of the photos derive from an interactive web camera accessed online. Others are taken by iPhone.
Arriving at Kjøllefjord, I was struck by the serenity and intensity of the Arctic nature, and the constant shift in weather. The sky seemed continually to shift in colour and tone, as did its reflections in the sea.
“On Reflection” aims for a visual exploration of Kjøllefjord as place, as well as of the concept reflection. A reflection could refer to both a thought and an mirrored image. As a concept, the word contains further ambiguity: it could refer to right or wrong, confirmation or distortion, explanatory or redundant, duplication or opposite. Within pattern design, there are a number of standard procedures to make a repeat, to create different visual rhythms or symmetries. A reflection, or an mirrored image, is one. The works explores different visual expressions of reflections, such as echoes, mirrorings, and opposites.
About author:
I am a PhD candidate in artistic research at Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University. ”On reflection” is part of my ongoing research project “Exploring repetition and meaning through pattern and sequence”. The works submitted shows works from a residency I was invited to by Arctic Culture Lab in Kjøllefjord, Norway, in spring 2017. Combining photography and pattern open up for investigations on visual narrative that lie beyond motifs or content of individual images.
With a background as a pattern designer I have always used a camera to collect visual appearances that I like. In time I have become more interested in keeping a photographic expression or trace in the compositions I make, as a reference to shared reality with the viewer. I am interested in how flow, continuity and rhythm communicate visually.
I would describe my work as visual thinking, and the result as reflections. I see repetitions as a method for visual enquiry. The result is photographic based sequence- and pattern-compositions, as two- or three-dimensional images or objects. I use repetition as a way to make abstract interpretations of what I see. It is an attempt to capture and strengthen atmosphere rather than exact motif of what I record with a camera. I aim for expressions in the area between known and unknown, where the viewer might recognize something, yet perhaps need to use imagination to make sense from the imagery.
Arriving at Kjøllefjord, I was struck by the serenity and intensity of the Arctic nature, and the constant shift in weather. The sky seemed continually to shift in colour and tone, as did its reflections in the sea.
“On Reflection” aims for a visual exploration of Kjøllefjord as place, as well as of the concept reflection. A reflection could refer to both a thought and an mirrored image. As a concept, the word contains further ambiguity: it could refer to right or wrong, confirmation or distortion, explanatory or redundant, duplication or opposite. Within pattern design, there are a number of standard procedures to make a repeat, to create different visual rhythms or symmetries. A reflection, or an mirrored image, is one. The works explores different visual expressions of reflections, such as echoes, mirrorings, and opposites.
About author:
I am a PhD candidate in artistic research at Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University. ”On reflection” is part of my ongoing research project “Exploring repetition and meaning through pattern and sequence”. The works submitted shows works from a residency I was invited to by Arctic Culture Lab in Kjøllefjord, Norway, in spring 2017. Combining photography and pattern open up for investigations on visual narrative that lie beyond motifs or content of individual images.
With a background as a pattern designer I have always used a camera to collect visual appearances that I like. In time I have become more interested in keeping a photographic expression or trace in the compositions I make, as a reference to shared reality with the viewer. I am interested in how flow, continuity and rhythm communicate visually.
I would describe my work as visual thinking, and the result as reflections. I see repetitions as a method for visual enquiry. The result is photographic based sequence- and pattern-compositions, as two- or three-dimensional images or objects. I use repetition as a way to make abstract interpretations of what I see. It is an attempt to capture and strengthen atmosphere rather than exact motif of what I record with a camera. I aim for expressions in the area between known and unknown, where the viewer might recognize something, yet perhaps need to use imagination to make sense from the imagery.