Dream Park

The photographs in this series respond to what I perceive to be a dichotomy at play within the public park. They at once express their contrived beauty or picture perfectness with a sense of unease and foreboding. The aesthetic palette of the 19th century Pictorialists is employed, combining the look and feel of early photographic processes with the atmospherics of inclement weather – fog, rain, snow - as a backdrop in an attempt to obscure the detail within the scene. By contemporising this technique, it becomes a visual metaphor. While these scenes may look somewhat pleasing, the lack of detail hints at a fuller picture and a sense that there is more going on here that is obscured from view.