Landscape Composition I
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Photography Installation
16 B&W photographs, dimensions 25 x 25mm, mounted on sheet acetate 594 x 841mm
2002

The work explores the relationship between soil erosion and human activity. It functions as a form of visual land survey to map the structure and decomposition of soil in a recently felled coniferous woodland. The overall image is based on a quadrat form, a scientific field study instrument used to sample representative sections of ground in a site. Individual images were photographed at 2 meters apart (standard planting distance used between trees in many forest plantations). Each of the 16 photographs, as samples or fragments combine to create a visual re-composition of the site.

Project made as part of the International Sculpture Symposium in Lock Boora Parklands, Co Offaly, located in a cut away bogland now turned over to conservation. The work was exhibited in Ferbane Window Art installed in an old butchers shop in the village of Ferbane Co. Offaly.

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