The theme of this series of photography relates to previous ones: perception and its dependence on difference.
Stating a difference in general seems to be dependent on the angle or standpoint of view on the one hand and the means of viewing – the apparatus- on the other: be it the natural eye or the artificial lens of a camera. Both are able to capture reality as well as to distort it. In regards to perspective the “eye picture” undergoes a correction through logical thinking and experience but the “lens picture” in form of a photo is mind-boggling like in artwalk which consists of 30 single pictures indicating the rhythm of walk down a hallway lined with same sized coloured paintings (Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin), where the first and last photo take a view from each end of the corridor.
In moon writingthe light of the moon - moved and traced by the artificial eye of the camera - is turned into an instrument. Like chalk on a blackboard or –by inversion - like ink on paper it is creating moon poetry.
The “writing with light” (from Greek: fotos – grafein) is taken further to the tangent series. In a photographic process moonlight is combined with shadows caused by sunlight. The hand-painted line of red ink touches the surface connecting areas of light and dark and creating a balance of opposites (= ultimate differences).
We seem to think along lines imbedded in our culture, upbringing, and education.
Tracing and questioning them by visual means is challenging and fun at the same time.
Ines Tancré