This quartz abstraction was made recently on an afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko. The walk was along the coast in Waitpinga, on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula South Australia.
During early autumn it has been cloudy in the morning and , clearing around midday and sunny in the afternoon. It has been a while since we have done this pm walk as the afternoon light has been too bright around 5-6pm. I was fortunate on this occasion. There was afternoon cloud.
This abstraction of salt + coastal granite rocks was made whilst I was on an afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko amongst some coastal rocks west of Petrel Cove on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia.
It had been a hot summers day and the small pools of water that usually lie amongst the granite rocks from the high tide in the morning had evaporated. I made a number of studies of these salt abstractions that afternoon.
I was taken by the soft colours of the quartz vein amongst the coastal granite rocks in the soft afternoon light:
Wirth summer just around the corner this part of the coast is still in sunlight between 5-6pm when I am on a poodlewalk. It is only rarely that there is cloud cover at this time of the day. This was one of those occasions.
The trunk of a pink gum in the local bushland in Waitpinga:
This was made on my last visit to this bushland in the early morning. The grass seeds were everywhere and it was well nigh impossible to walk with the poodles in the bushland. Kayla ended up being covered with grass seeds in the legs, ears and body. It took me ages to pick them off her body.
At Kings Head, Waitpinga, southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. The background context is this online exhibition at Encounters Gallery.
Suzanne is away in Brisbane and I am minding the 2 standards poodles. So the poodlewalks are within contained areas. Hence the walk along the Heysen Trail to Kings Beach and Kings Head.
This picture is part of an ongoing series that builds up a body of work to provide a supplement to a forthcoming online exhibition at Encounters Gallery:
This picture is part of an ongoing series that depends on certain weather conditions along the littoral zone.
It was made on a poodlewalk during a a wild storm event. The tide was high, the wind was gusty and strong, and the waves were very high. It was quite dangerous making my way around the rocks west of Petrel Cove. We--Maleko and myself--- had to proceed with great caution.
I made a video of the surging waves using my iPhone 6 whilst on this afternoon walk. The waves swirled around my feet as I sat on a rock making the video.
On the recent poodlewalks (in late July) I have started exploring the local terrain for some new images for the forthcoming online Abstraction exhibition at Encounters Gallery in a couple of months. This is one possibility that I came across whilst walking along the coastal rocks near the lookout at Kings Beach Rd in Waitpinga.
It is very low key as I have been busy with getting the Walking/photography exhibition ready for the SALA Festival in South Australia and making few large format photos for the forthcoming Friends of Photography Group online exhibition in August.
This picture is part of an ongoing series from which emerges a forthcoming online abstraction exhibition at Encounters Gallery.
Made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla along Depledge Rd in Waitpinga.
From this low-fi blog in a minor photographic key a proposed online abstraction exhibition at Encounters Gallery has emerged that explores the contemporary nature of abstraction as opposed to the art historical one that sees abstraction as an modernist style of the 20th century. It is seen as outmoded--a pure” form or aesthetic form(s) that transcends historical and social influence that ran out of steam in the 1970s. Abstraction is locked into an historical dead end.
This art historical account still remains the dominant interpretation of (painterly) abstraction and so it appears to be very odd to speak of abstraction and politics, abstraction and culture, abstraction and gender or abstraction and race.
What has emerged from the blog is a proposed online abstraction exhibition at Encounters Gallery.This exhibition on abstraction photography includes some of my photos as well as possibly those of two colleagues, namely Beverley Southcott and Adam Dutkiewicz. We have exhibited together before, and Adam and I have published a book with Moon Arrow Press on abstract photography in 2016.