psychogeographies

Interferences

A gallery from the Psychogeographies series

The camera can be the catalyst for exploring a new and exciting overlap between psychology and geography. The lens has the uncanny ability to articulate how places affect our emotions and how we feel about them at a deep, almost unconscious level. Psychogeography helps me see places in new and unexpected ways; it puts discovery back into the mundane. The idea of roaming - better described by the French word errance – pervades my Psychogeographies series. I cross environments, man-made or natural, following seemingly random path lines. This errance always brings a deep sense of freedom, very much the reason why I do it.

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Visual interferences creep up in the natural world. Not natural interferences, but man-made, artificial ones. From signs to regimented fences, they always mediate in our sensuous appreciation of nature. They don’t just make the ‘countryside untidy’ and spoil our aesthetic perception of the landscape.  Visual interferences are not only seen; they are also felt.  They’re felt by our unconscious, atavistic inner-self who longs for a wilderness which is not there anymore. The orderly arrangements of shapes of visual interferences always clashes with the seemingly chaotic, self-willed land.

© 2010 Pangeafoto.