Anachronisms: Honeymoon, holiday
2021
In April 1978, my parents were on their honeymoon when dad made several pictures with his Kodak Retinette at different points along the Great Ocean Road (Gadubanud country). Some 43 years later, I visited the same sites with the same Retinette to make the same pictures. The result is the unity of the past and the present, or more accurately, the distant past and the near past: the honeymoon and the holiday. This series is a collection of vernacular photographs from my family album and those that I shot earlier this year. Each image has been digitally manipulated to unite the landscapes and transgress a timeline.
In these nine pictures, scenes are represented twice over, years apart; some similar and some diverge. In this unity, the landscapes ask their beholder to compare and contrast the overt - and at times covert - layer of events. Rather than lay these landscapes down side by side, they are displayed one on top of the other anachronistically; the past on the present and the present on the past in order to suggest something that is neither of the two. And more often than not, it is something absurd.
