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Julie Clark Artist Statement I take my inspiration from travelling through the landscape and I relate my contemporary practice to a tradition associated with landscape which can be traced back to JMW Turner and Romantic Philosophy. My work can be seen as a contemporary play with Romanticism which I relate to our superficial postmodern condition and our alienation from nature; contrasting nature and artifice as opposed to the traditional innocent belief in nature associated with Romanticism. The Romantics used atmosphere to evoke an emotional response from the viewer; suggesting altered states or removal from everyday experience which was often associated with spiritual transcendence. Through an interplay of manipulation of the landscape using contemporary media i.e. camera lense and simulated weather effects viewed through the train window, I detach myself from the landscape; as opposed to being ‘in’ or ‘at one’ with it in the traditional Romantic sense. In the Romantic tradition these images still offer a sense of the beyond and appreciation of the restorative and uplifting powers of nature but they are also deceptive in their superficiality. My photographic work is based on journey's through the highlands.
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