Liam Collins
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Projects
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Collecting Nature/Songs of the Sky
Gaddum Gallery - 1 April - 14 May 2023Collecting Nature
The inspiration for this project came from the artist Jana Sojka. At an exhibition of hers a few years ago she handed out handmade envelopes. The envelop I received had a piece of paper on which was written -
“What do you collect? Nature”
The final project is a disorganised collection of natural objects, photograms, and photograph/photogram combination prints. All the photographs and objects were taken in Cumbria. The inclusion of objects on top of the prints gives a strange sense of scale.
Songs of the Sky
Songs of the Sky is an ongoing project of large-scale photographs of the sky. The series is inspired by Alfred Stieglitz’s series of the same name which went on to become his Equivalents series. While Stieglitz was concerned with what the images could mean to each individual. I am concerned about the sky itself. The atmosphere and clouds, the natural and manmade things that fly through the air. The cycle of day and night, the ever-changing scene above our heads.