LAND’S END

Project Statment

This project explores the human relationship with the landscape. It consists of two pieces of artwork: a panoramic image of the dunes and a composition of 6 reverse images of a dune. The project originated as a documentary on the Dune of Pilat, France, as a study of the landscape.

Dune of Pilat is a very remoted landscape which is the tallest and biggest dune in Europe, measuring approximately 2.7 kilometers in length, 500 meters in width, and reaching a height of around 110 meters above sea level. While one side faced the Atlantic Ocean, the other side was surrounded by forest it was a unique and strange landscape that interested me. As for its unique geographical location, it is affected by the ocean wind and constantly changes its shape.   

The starting point of the project is escaping from the busy city life to the middle of nowhere, being in the nature alone, the sense of isolation arose at the same time it was free, photographing landscapes had become a way to express thoughts. Through documenting the landscape for 7 days, day by day the purpose of the use of land to had changed from a leisure place to enjoy the natural scene to my own a shelter.

Seeing different tourists climbing up the dune every day following the path day by day to the top just to see the view above, was a great place to view the sunset, but it held no relationship or attachment to me. At the same time, I was also photographing scenes of how people interacted with the place and the path, tracing that left behind. By reorganising those trace fragments, I reconstruct my version of the dune, not from seeing but from memory and feeling.