Two sites, less than two kilometres apart. Similar in size but distinctly different. One used for waste, the other for growth. One leeches green liquid, the other green shoots. A redundant landfill site and a short growth coppice crop. Both have the ability to produce energy and both energy sources are ultimately burnt off but only one is used to generate power.

In ‘Suspensions of Perception’ Jonathan Crarey argues that the manner in which we see images and indeed reality, is governed not by the objective human mind but by the way in which we are conditioned by our relationship with a visual culture, determined by experiences shaped by events that constructed our contemporary culture as far back as the mid 1800’s.

The landscape has held a certain romanticism within western visual culture, from Constables rural England to Adams colossal uber real scenes from the west of the US we are conditioned to hear the imagery reflect what we know back to us. But what if the conditions were not such that we could hear that voice? What if as viewers we were subjected to another voice that questioned the manner in which we are so readily coerced by images?

Presented on opposing walls within a small gallery space and exhibited to the sound of an arguing couple, the work exists to question the manner in which everything we’ve been taught or observed about how we see the world around us replicated in imagery and photographs.