Matthew, this isn’t ‘t particularly relevant to your post but I just got my copy of American Prospects and it’s amazing! Thank you for introducing me to Sternfeld via On This Site, which was also very good (but holy god soooo grim).
Enjoy, Sternfeld has such a range of fantastic work, I've recently been enjoying his project on the High Line in New York before it was turned into a park.
A fascinating post Matthew. I have had similar ideas for projects but have never really figured out a way to make them work.
The idea of exploring our relationship with the earth and thinking what that might have been in days gone by compared to what it is today is something that fascinates me. I have come across the work of Kirsten Klein before and find the whole ethos around her image making inspiring.
Your images have an intrigue to them and it will be interesting to see where your project takes you. Good luck with at all, I hope to read more about it.
Kirsten Klein is fantastic and I wish a publisher would work with her on a book since it seems her images aren't exactly that accessible at this time aside from maybe being in Denmark and seeing a show or visiting her studio.
So glad to have stumbled upon your Substack Matthew, it's making me think afresh. Really enjoying your images too. There's a graphic/geometric aspect that I love and aspire to.
Thank you Andrew, these are fun to make and I have come to notice the letter A showing up in the branches quite often which has been a fun personal "where's Waldo" game, which adds to graphic nature of the images I'm sure.
Spend long enough in them there woods and you'll see the full Blair witch repertoire! Thanks again for sharing the projects - looking forward to seeing what else you've been up to in the fullness of time.
Interesting post and a nice series of limbs and branches in your neighboring forest. I most especially like the image of the trees meeting each other from either side of a small channel of water.
That's a fascinating post Matthew, I think you're on to an intriguing concept and I'll be watching on with interest to see how things pan out for you. Thanks for including those links, I'd been aware of Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Theaters" work before, but not the others, and seeing his extra work is very interesting, I'm not sure how much I agree with his thoughts that the only possible scenic vision we would share with the ancients would be a seascape. That might be a response to his cultural and regional upbringing, I'm pretty confident that for me, living in Australia, there are many places I've been that show no trace of human activity and would have remained the same for (likely) many, many thousands of years.
I suppose you could also argue that your neighbors in New Zealand would have places like that as well being that last place on earth to be civilized if I may use that term here.
Sugimoto has a exhibition book out now called "Time Machine" which looks at his whole career to date, definitely a great way to get into his varied work!
Matthew, this isn’t ‘t particularly relevant to your post but I just got my copy of American Prospects and it’s amazing! Thank you for introducing me to Sternfeld via On This Site, which was also very good (but holy god soooo grim).
Enjoy, Sternfeld has such a range of fantastic work, I've recently been enjoying his project on the High Line in New York before it was turned into a park.
A fascinating post Matthew. I have had similar ideas for projects but have never really figured out a way to make them work.
The idea of exploring our relationship with the earth and thinking what that might have been in days gone by compared to what it is today is something that fascinates me. I have come across the work of Kirsten Klein before and find the whole ethos around her image making inspiring.
Your images have an intrigue to them and it will be interesting to see where your project takes you. Good luck with at all, I hope to read more about it.
Kirsten Klein is fantastic and I wish a publisher would work with her on a book since it seems her images aren't exactly that accessible at this time aside from maybe being in Denmark and seeing a show or visiting her studio.
So glad to have stumbled upon your Substack Matthew, it's making me think afresh. Really enjoying your images too. There's a graphic/geometric aspect that I love and aspire to.
Thank you Andrew, these are fun to make and I have come to notice the letter A showing up in the branches quite often which has been a fun personal "where's Waldo" game, which adds to graphic nature of the images I'm sure.
Spend long enough in them there woods and you'll see the full Blair witch repertoire! Thanks again for sharing the projects - looking forward to seeing what else you've been up to in the fullness of time.
Interesting post and a nice series of limbs and branches in your neighboring forest. I most especially like the image of the trees meeting each other from either side of a small channel of water.
That's a favourite of mine too, very cathedral like arching over what is no more than a two foot wide run off of water from one wet area to another.
That's a fascinating post Matthew, I think you're on to an intriguing concept and I'll be watching on with interest to see how things pan out for you. Thanks for including those links, I'd been aware of Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Theaters" work before, but not the others, and seeing his extra work is very interesting, I'm not sure how much I agree with his thoughts that the only possible scenic vision we would share with the ancients would be a seascape. That might be a response to his cultural and regional upbringing, I'm pretty confident that for me, living in Australia, there are many places I've been that show no trace of human activity and would have remained the same for (likely) many, many thousands of years.
All very interesting.
I suppose you could also argue that your neighbors in New Zealand would have places like that as well being that last place on earth to be civilized if I may use that term here.
Sugimoto has a exhibition book out now called "Time Machine" which looks at his whole career to date, definitely a great way to get into his varied work!
Beautiful story 🖤