FOLD IN/FOLD OUT
Digital print on Ilford Fibre silk
30 x 40 cm
Berlin PHD research trip project outcomes
Berlin, Germany
October 2017

Fold In/Fold Out

This series of photographs is the first material outcome of my creative research project Mountain Making, Folding In, Folding Out that investigates Berlin’s Trümmerberg sites, rubble-mountains constructed from the debris of buildings bombed in WWII.  The project is investigating strategies of collage and assemblage, within the mediums of photography and object-based sculpture, as methods to illuminate unseen meaning, reveal new knowledge and create non-linear narratives from the context of the sites.  The unseen is defined here as something that is known and felt but that evades direct vision and representation.  The form of the mountain and the form of the intersection are the two dominant themes/images that have emerged from my recent research at the Trümmerberg sites.  In light of this, this series of photo-collages specifically investigate the idea of the mountain/pile/mound in relation to the idea of the intersection/threshold/seam, as well as ideas of the double negative, light, shadow and reflections, the blind spot and the inverse.

The project is part of my current PHD research at RMIT University, Melbourne.