Granite abstraction #17

During the Covid-19 lockdown I have been photographing in my local area: mostly exploring and photographing within a few kilometres from our home in Encounter Bay. The photography has included both digital and film.

The emphasis has been on the film work--initially medium format, then large format--- so that I am able to participate in an online exhibition of film photography hosted by the Friends of Photography Group in Melbourne.This is an exhibition of film photos made during the lockdown.

Abstraction is usually seen as a removal, or a paring away.It is an abstraction from something, or stripping away the context. This is usually seen as a moving away from figuration and representation, and with Formalist modernism (Greenberg) also a moving away from other media (literature and narrative). The modernist desire/drive is for a purity of art forms expressed in terms of specificity of pure visuality and painterly form.

This repression of literature to achieve purity in the specific medium of painting through erecting a wall or grid (Ie., Rosalind Krauss) between the arts of vision and the arts of language collapses with the shift to post-mediums and the intermingling of media.

granite abstraction #14

This abstraction was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla during the late summer of 2019

I have never been able to find the site since. I do know the rough area in which this granite is located--its just west of Petrel Cove-- but I cannot find the detailed site amongst the different granite formations in the area.

salt abstract #2

Another in the salt abstract series:

These salt ponds are very ephemeral. They only appear during the hot weather when the heat of the summer sun dries out the various rocks pools after a high tide.

granite abstraction #13

This abstraction of a granite formation was made just west of Petrel Cove when I was on a poodlewalk with Kayla in the early morning:

I was working nearby on a series of salt abstractions at the time--mid February 2019--and I saw this rock formation.

yellow abstract

This was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla whilst we were slowly making our way to the Petrel Cove car park:

The touch of sunlight playing across the front of the granite caught my eye.

granite abstraction #10

This picture was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla:

It is an abstraction of granite rocks near Petrel Cove on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula.

canvas abstraction

This abstraction was made whilst on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla around the township of Victor Harbor:

It was near one of the hotels the edge of Warland Reserve. It was a rubbish bag for a big beer barn that sells junk hotel food.

cacti abstraction

Along Jetty Road in Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor:

Dead leaves of a wild cacti plant growing on the side of the road. The picture was made whilst I was on a poodlewalk in May 2018 with Ari. It was on one of his last walks.