PAPER
NAUTILUS
ALICE WILSON
It is the balance between what is real and what is perceived to be
real, and also the use of nature as a representation of an ideological reality
that are key to my practice. With particular interest directed towards the
lens, I am considering how our experience of the landscape is understood and
attempting to assess the many differing ways in which technology plays a role.
I am interested in whether or not we are more inclined to accept a photograph
as a genuine depiction of reality, and the way in which painting and
photography has informed what we think of as landscape.
A view through Alice's work
From the late 18th century, Romanticism reacted against the
rational thought of the Enlightenment and tried to negate prescriptive
qualities of science. It explored the emotions that could be caused by the
contemplation of the world and often that of nature, the philosopher Immanuel
Kant drew attention to emotions such as terror and awe as being triggers of the
Sublime. Through my work I attempt to asses these histories relevance in a
contemporary context, and ask where it is we might find a modern day comparison.
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