Like Columns of Tiny Ants (2016-present)

The Like Columns of Tiny Ants series began as an attempt to convey the experience of moving though the teeming life and tangled forms of Norfolk’s woodlands and wetlands.  Most of these wide landscape-format pieces comprise two successive shots of adjacent fragments of woodland that are then juxtaposed, giving the initial impression that this is a single continuous view of the scene.  The imperfect alignment of these pairings, however, introduces a kind of delay, a slight failure of trust, marking the fact that they present neither what the human eye sees nor what the camera can record at any given instant.  Recent deliberate exceptions to this pattern of construction point more directly to the utterly unreliable manner in which these heedless landscape images may unfurl in pictorial space.