Grid/Navigate/Arrive/Photograph - Quarantine Head construct

Constructions for 5 locations on Sydney Harbour. Each 120 x 180cm overall
Silver gelatin prints on aluminum, ink and pencil.

Grotto Point construct

This work involved a concern with the overlap between photography, single point perspective and cartography. The attitude of the camera to space was an important factor and a large format view camera was used to photograph an imaginary grid on a line of latitude in Sydney Harbour over a period of one year.

View of the grid from Grotto Point. The geometry of photographs is the same as single-point perspective due to the light passing through the lens.

The grid (in red) as drawn on a hydrographic map of Sydney Harbour.

construct

The grid was photographed from various points around the harbour and drawn onto (into) the photographs. The finished works are composite images which reflect the shape of the grid from each viewpoint and there is a sense of time through the use of composite images from photographs at each location at different times.

Middle Head construct

The grid is outside the frame of the photograph due to the close distance to South Head. Interestingly, clouds do not conform to the rules of single point perspective as the occupy a "dome".