YOUR WORD LIGHTS MY PATH
Your Word Lights My Path is a sequence of photos, embodying both a supernaturalstillness and a fleeting movement of an almost otherworldly and yet intimate journey through a snow covered mountainscape. Jagged edges are softened in a hushed void, by the sublime blanketing of a blizzard; an abyss of white stretching endlessly alludes to a silence and vastness. The meditative stillness is captured in a fleeting moment where the spiritual and the intangible combine as if one is voyaging through a dream. Contrasting tones of shadows interact with luminosity hovering over barely visible landscapes. An overwhelming sense of solitude and seclusion seem to be all that remains. However, The title Your Word Lights My Path, suggests an ambiguity that hope is ever present. These photographs embody an empty wilderness; they are meditations on solitude, the supernatural vastness of nature, and the ephemeral traces now concealed beneath the snow. They invite us to observe this haunting path, to lose ourselves in the ghostly hush, and to embrace the exquisite melancholy of the infinite unknown, yet from an almost cinematic safety. The viewer is not immersed, but is slightly distanced from the scene. Here, the notion that modern technology has abstracted us from a direct relationship with nature, places us in a safe distance, like a spectator in a movie, rather than fully being in the existential experience. The mountains dissolve softly into mist and memory. The snow, smooth and unbroken, suggests both purity and oblivion—a paradox of serenity and estrangement. This resonates with Wittgenstein’s idea that things we experience and ‘know’ evade linguistic exactitude and therefore, exist in the realm of the indefinable. Moreover, this concept also alludes to Heidegger’s notion of the uncanny where the familiar and the strange blur, provoking an unsettling awareness of one's own being in the world. There is an attempt to capture a lamenting beauty, an uncanny tranquillity that lingers like a half-remembered dream. Devoid of human inhabitancy, the viewer could observe the sense of being the last living soul on the planet. & quot;Your Word" in the title, however, symbolises a form of divine or existential communication that offers a sense of direction - however ambiguous - that carries the individual forward in their journey and ‘lights a path’ through the unknown.
