2017
I looked at a photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot (The Oriel Window, Lacock Abbey), and was struck by its small size (85x116mm), and my own experience of looking at it. Photographs can be big, can be massive, can be expensive to produce - but they don’t have to be. They can be small. Visual attention is not dependent on scale, but I wondered about the intimacy of being nose-far to the whole image.
How to frame an image? Can the frame be the artwork too? How big should a photo be? Are big photographs better? How to draw in the viewer, to encourage that experience of looking?
The boxworks series uses the imagery featuring in book 7 of the Between The Green Spaces photobooks, and was an opportunity to make physical artworks in response to ideas which flow from the act of photography.
