Horizon
Horizon begins with a line that appears fixed, yet is always changing.
‘This collection embraces abstraction through subtle blurring and long exposures, inviting viewers to pause and daydream rather than merely observe. Pieces like Leaving offer a defocused, dream-like horizon—evoking an emotional response more than a literal representation.’Along the coast of New South Wales, I return to that place where sea and sky meet. Sometimes I leave the shutter open and allow clouds and water to move through time; sometimes I deliberately surrender focus until the landscape is reduced to colour, tone and a single horizontal division.
These are not records of coastline in the conventional sense. Detail softens. Weather becomes shape. Ocean becomes field. Familiar places begin to slip towards abstraction.
Leaving is the most personal work in the collection. Its lack of detail grew from the visual uncertainty I experienced while recovering from eye surgery, waiting to discover whether clarity would return. Elsewhere, rain, fading blue light and moving cloud create abstractions of their own.
I have spent much of my life looking towards horizons. They offer distance, but also space—for memory, anticipation, daydreaming and photographs not yet made.
The sea is always moving | The sky is always changing | Only the horizon seems still.