Barry Underwood
(Self Directed)
He uses the land as a canvas for his
photography, the urban and suburban as it creates the community. He researches
where he is going to work so that he can understand and get a feel for the
place. He wants to make the viewer see something special within the ordinariness
of a landscape, it can be transformed. He is inspired by land art, land
photography and paints, he wants to reveal the surreal and the familiar.
What interested me about Underwood is
that he uses the environment around him as a canvas for his work. He may not
alter the landscape drastically but the viewer can see that something is not
right and doesn’t belong. As he uses light in woodland it creates a magical
feeling such as Alice in Wonderland as the light is subtle and is working with the
trees not against them and they have their own place of belonging, the trees
are not sucking them in. The way he positions the lights makes the viewers eyes
follow them across the page but managing to capture most of the aspects of the
surrounding as well. It has made me understand that the light does not have to be dominant, that it can work within the environment even when I have placed it there.
Barry
Underwood, Blue Line, 2010
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