Caroline Savage
Cocoon Pomfret St Trees (2015;2022), Altered photography on wood panel, Ed., 1/1, 24" x 18"
My work focuses on nature, exploring the relationship between the camera lens and light, space and time, the process of capturing an image. These images show the traces of disruption, dislocation of movements and connective lines as the camera travels over the landscape as my physical collaborator. The Anthropocene Era is a particular area of compassionate exploration. I utilize Inkjet Transfers as predictions of a future of our Coastlines. My Cocoons are objects in deep space, perhaps floating as if preserved imagined embryos for a future awakening.
My interest is in the tension between recognizable and altered space, working in alternative/historical processes and traditional photography. Images are captured, claimed, reworked and presented to create a world of mystery and wonder that collides with actuality and perception.
What is before our eyes is the experience of ‘seeing, which is forgetting the name of what one sees’ (from the book, “Seeing is Forgetting the Name of What One Sees” by Lawrence Weschler, a biography of Robert Irwin, artist).
