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| Featured: January 2008 | paul haydock-wilson | |
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PHW is a seeker after the Sublime, a psychogeographer, continuing a long tradition of image-making in the English landscape.He has recently been working with Deptford Creek, both as medium and as a creative partner, allowing its water to eat away at his etching plates to create an image.
There is a certain ritual about his work - the process of climbing down onto the creek-bed at low-tide to tether the plates below the water-line has strong connections to ancient sacrificial and votive rites practiced throughout Europe. And there is something magnificently absurd about his work - the intense examination of surface detail, of the minutiae of corruption is reminiscent of an 18th Century scientist, yet it promises no material enlightenment.
Once the river has done its work the plate undergoes a certain post-production and enlargement in which 'the microscopic becomes macroscopic and it becomes possible to negotiate the landscape as a surface map. The local tactile and kinaesthetic features of the surface which were previously invisible are now perceptually clear'. The observer becomes the explorer, travelling the thin ground between 'knowledge and experience, subject and object, psyche and soma, culture and nature'.
And the images themselves are strangely dualist - their material fact is landscape as object, created by the landscape itself, yet their 'soul' is as expansive and fragile as a Romantic watercolour.
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