2023 (2009)

Medium format photography, black & white

Dimensions: 4m x 56cm

Just after graduation, I spent my very first artist residency at Art Space Portsmouth, where I regularly visited Eastney Beach. I could not get enough of this certain atmosphere there - the vegetation, sounds, smell and solitude - a place I tried to capture in various ways, such as on medium format film. (Needless to say, yes, my favourite book during those months was 'The Rings of Saturn' by W.G. Sebald and this has clearly been of influence here.) These accidental overlays, double exposures, details, waves, horizon lines and shifting lights were photographed during one afternoon towards evening. Now printed on a 4 m long strip of mounted paper, hang in a semi-circle, the image becomes a scenery again. I had it printed for the first time on the occasion of 'Einfach machen' (-'Just do it'), an afternoon of conversations on landscapes and coastal connections. Also this year, I finally got to visit Portsmouth again, met old colleagues at Art Space, and revisited Eastney Beach where I again found vegetation, sounds, smell and solitude.