works from the series
are in the following collections: Government of
Newfoundland and Labrador, Provincial Art Bank;
National Gallery of Canada.
This series is about movement – the movement of
wildlife
at ground level and of celestial bodies
overhead. Heaven and Earth, if
you like. The events juxtaposed in each pair are
just two of the
countless natural phenomena – perceptible and
imperceptible – that
occurred at the same time.
The series is also about the ways we do and do
not take
photographs and the possibilities for artistic
agency when I
deliberately relinquish being the photographer
and leave it to a trail
camera. I installed it at the edge of Blast Hole
Pond River where it
was triggered by the movement of wildlife. I
value the unpredictable,
serendipitous, unintentional, and
off-centeredness of these
photographs, while recognizing that wildlife
move with intention and
the celestial events in our galaxy happen with
precise predictability.
I'm interested in how we regard such
photographs, which
ask questions about the ways that photographs
are composed and about
our expectations of the pictured world.
Marlene Creates,
2016