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May 25, 2005
Landscape photography after the collapse of the beautiful of modernism?
Rosemary Laing Groundspeed #4, 2001, C-type photograph
We have a staged image of mass produced floral carpets covering forest floors.
Groundspeed #2, 2001, C-type photograph
Laing has redecorated a rainforest floor with some Axminster carpets originally destined for suburban Australian parlours. In the process she has redesigned nature. It is more than nature has been been shaped by humans and so is no longer wildernesss. Laing redesigned a place we belong to. It is a representation that tries to make sense of what belonging to a place means.
The carpets dislocate that place, make it strange, and so displace us so that we are strangers----- or migrants?
Are Australians migrants? It's an old idea. We don't really belong to the ccountry because we are migrants.
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great work if you can get it . . .