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/silence
This world is so busy, so hard to get away from the noise that we often avoid embracing any silence, acting a little uncomfortable by its presence. Even when it is found, we are easily distracted by the stress in our minds, just as nature’s purest complexity offers a subtle noise within the landscape. I have come to value quiet moments in nature; they allow me time to reconnect with the landscape and try to understand my relationship with it. I find silence in the space between the objects and the voids around them by listening to the landscape and letting the silence speak—before deciding if there’s anything to add to it.
These photographs are my rendition of nature, offering a quiet beauty to express the silence I found. Delicate deciduous trees sit connected to misty mountain peaks, below the long white cloud—offering a contemporary vision of Aotearoa. This non-classical interpretation of the New Zealand landscape strips out the emotional response that comes from an identifiable location. These prints invite you to consider how wonderful silence is; they remind you to find those quiet spaces, to head into nature and enjoy your own moments of silence.