In contrast to the video work Neve, and its consideration of colonial agenda, expectation and intention, leaving everything instead up to the chance encounter - the photos here are the photos of the desired outcome - the view, the panorama, the pinnacle and other colonial ideas. Here at the top, above it all, looking down - but instead, wishing to withdraw with as little overlaying of expectation as possible.
These places are not for people and a very privileged scenario enables people to be here. Sheer drops and unpredictable weather patterns, no sounds except the occasional thud of falling snow. Your own breath, your own footsteps, your own nose running. What are you doing here and why?
The incorporation of desaturated processing of these digital photographs here, rendering the sky dark, defining the details and complexity of this place, works to shift colonial/touristic ideas around the perfect photo of the scenic environment - the places we are impacting with our behaviours at ground level and in the skies.
Our internalised realities that drive our actions and in-actions within the Capitalist structure we find impossible to escape.
These places exist with or without us, and they will be here when we are not, they look and listen to us as we look and listen to them.
