Bending and Benign:
I step into the image of the landscape as spectator and then, feet sinking into the clay, thorns draw faint lines on my arms and ankles.
Loose rocks unsettle the body and the environment begins to absorb me.
I press against trees, lie on the earth, drape my body over rocks and assume the shapes of the land.
The photographer, caught between landscape and portrait, conspires with the imitation, losing the false sense of where the human body ends and nature begins.
Joya:AiR Residency Nov/Dec 2018
Photography by Chris Stenton
