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Meet Becky Comber
Posted by UPFRONT in Featured, beyondimaginings
The first time I saw photos from Becky Comber was in an exhibition entitled, Close Distance. The images from this exhibition have stayed with me and I can clearly recall them without too much difficulty. They were simple compositions taken on the road as she travelled across Canada – with a difference. She wasn’t simply taking pictures of a changing landscape, but constructing them by introducing new elements [and not in post production]. In the exhibition each photograph was shot through a window with a taped image of another landscape placed at the horizon line on the widow. The result was a constructed landscape through re-photographing one landscape over another by collage.
When reading Becky’s proposal for the Beyond Imaginings exhibition I was intrigued by the approach she was going to take. As within her earlier work she was going to travel through the landscape, but this time it was not a road trip by car it was a pilgrimage by foot. She intends to walk as much of the Bruce Trail as possible. The act of walking would impose a pace and slowness to how she perceived her surroundings. This would enable her to arrange the shots as contemplations of time and place. We talked about this in comparison to earlier work and she felt that the similar concerns of identifying foreground, middle ground and background would apply to this new series. Rather than imposing a collaged image into the middle ground she would look to nature for those compositional structures.
She has been sending me working images and in these images the visual cues are there although more subtle than the first images I saw of hers, but I have to say that this new direction is much stronger and much more compelling. Below are some of Becky’s working images taken from April 22nd – 28th, 2010.
– Pat Macaulay, Head of Visual Arts
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