One Road In examines the expansiveness of human emotion through the vastness of our natural world.
Using the immediate process of cyanotype to develop the series, the landscapes imaged work to evoke a visceral emotional response, reflecting the way I encountered these spaces. The monochromatic blue tones hold a dreamlike quality, where the boundaries between memory, space and emotion blur. Working as a visual diary of experience, these photos do not merely represent the places visited but embody the emotional landscapes experienced in them- moments of freedom and introspection.
Informed by the authors Haruki Murakami and Jack Kerouac, whose writing mirrors the fragmented way in which our memories and emotional responses to places unfold. In Murakami's The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, he skilfully marries a seemingly mundane 'well' to the characters emotional demise. The landscapes in One Road In have been left deliberately unidentifiable, both in their location and emotional significance - Just as the 'well' in his novel. Allowing the real time exploration of how the ordinary gains meaning in the face of powerful experiences.
Likewise, Kerouac captures the written aesthetic of adventure, where movement through space becomes a search for meaning, and growth. Playing with the same establishment of character that Kerouac does in his novel, the landscapes are grounded with the females portrait shot, supplying a character for the narrative of venture presented.
