Luminous Flow #2
Karijini National Park, Western Australia, 2005
This Luminous Flow series had been a set of images I had been imagining and considering for some time and became the focus of a trip to Karijini NP in 2005.
Walking into Knox Gorge pre-dawn, I wanted to capture the sense of what it is like to be deep down inside these narrow, (knife cut like,) Pilbara Gorges. A cool, quiet place removed from the stifling heat above. A place where the water coursing through the 3 billion year old banded iron rock formation has carved smooth, deep channels, chasms and water slide like chutes through the super hard rock strata. A place that is so awe inspiring, so humbling but also very challenging physically and difficult photographically at the same time.
I really wanted to document how this banded iron has been worn smooth by the eons of water movement. When lit by the beautifully subtle early morning light, the rock in shadow glows a cool blue highlighting the high iron content in its makeup.
I wedged my tripod horizontally across this steep Grade 5 section of the gorge and somehow got myself in a position, spread “spider like”, above the camera setup to compose and trigger the images. The longer exposure imparts a luminous glow to the spring fed water flowing underneath and underscores the ongoing sense of relentless age and eternal flow.
This Luminous Flow series offers a tactile, interpretive sense of what I was trying to create on this trip to Karijini. It is an ancient, sentient place that demands dedicated time and applied understanding to be able to reveal its more subtle secrets.
This series has always been amongst my favourite works for they accurately represent my interpretation and sense of place at that time and how they came together on this memorable early morning expedition.
Artwork Notes:
This Luminous Flow Series work very well as stand alone artworks but are at their best as a triptych series presented as “wrap around” “Ready to Hang” stretch canvases.
This triptych combination really does offer the sense of one image flowing into the next and adds to the sense of interpretation I originally imagined when conceiving this series.
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