why.
The landscape - its content and time layering - has become a main topic that has occupied me for the past year. As I looked closely at the captured landscapes, I began to discover innumerable other landscapes contained within them. A strong desire to understand this complexity led me to develop the research.
Looking deeply into the landscape, I perceived it as an assemblage of countless smaller landscapes. Each of them I examined as a sample that contains the whole landscape within itself.
The next step for a deeper understanding was simplifying these segments. I chose to do this by splitting each image into layers. This is done in order to portray all active participants in the structure of the landscape.
To recreate the landscape, all of the layers are superimposed. There are two results of that act - active and passive.
The active contains, in itself, a displacement of the layers, relative to each other - linearly or through a pivot point. This brings a particular vibrancy to the landscape, hence, making it alive, active in the present moment.
In contrast, the passive one is a result of an exact superimposition of these layers, giving us an answer about the structure. The result is transformed into a carrier of the idea of time and the historicity, which the landscape carries within itself.