#new topographics
from: What happens when nothing happens other than the weather, people, cars and clouds, Morocco, 2019
Eva Donckers
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Landscape Project (Digital Photography, 2020)
I have been going to school for the past 2 years, and I almost done! It is why I have barely posted anything.
I finished all of my current studios (going to take a year break before I transfer to get my BFA) but I never posted any of that stuff here. Now that I am “done” for the moment, I think I will share some of this stuff with you.
I took a photo class in the spring and this was the last project I did before quarantine started. It was a Landspace project – but my teacher encouraged us to go into a New Topographic movement. So I did just that!
I did a small series about the human relationship with plants. We see them as resources to consume, or as aesthetic objects for decoration. To us, they are here for out benefit. However, this ignores the truth that plants were here long before us and will be here long after we are gone. We take them from their habitats and put them were we want with little regards for environmental impact. We force them into shapes they would not take naturally, even if it is bad for them and us. While I don’t think these are “bad” thing necessarily, but I feel it is something we need to be cognizant of.
Here, I explore this theme by framing plants as objects removed their environments and presented as object of consumption. I also frame these plant in way that references classical landscape, recontextualizing then in their proper place as a reminder of where they came from.
It is a reminder that plants are not just for us and they are not just a resource. We need to respect them and carefully consider our relationship with them for ourselves and our planet.
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Budapest, 2019. Ph: Matthias Heiderich
le house and yard, Vancouver, BC.pmSi
The marshland in the delta
A place I’ve been before.
Snow in the forest.
Following the path in the forest
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