Diver Duo : The Crystal Cove Cantos

Gold Toned Print on Fibre Based Paper

Being, Nothingness and the close connection to Nature

These works are informed by the notions of perception and sense of place.

Living with the ocean for an extensive period of time while based on a remote jungle island in Thailand’s Gulf of Siam - has invited a journey into the frequencies of Nature’s sounds. The shoreline and the forest inhabit a space I term as ‘the breathing edge of the landscape’, where the invisible influence of sound is intimately woven throughout the fabric of experience. My interest here being the site specific spatiality of sound and the liminal spaces they generate. The whispers of Nature create a living dialogue that can be mapped and explored to open up fresh vistas of perception. Visually these works are both a record of sonic influences upon states of being and a reference to memory, while being in raw Nature.

Water and its movements of waves, currents and rain has been studied to affect a subtle healing charge in the body with the release of negatively charged ions into the surrounding atmosphere whereby affecting one’s consciousness. A more acute sense of balance becomes palpable, revealing the essence, the heart of a space, particularly while immersed in and around aquatic environs. Most notably with attention given to the audible , a perceptual shift within oneself can be observed. Witnessed, unimpeded by the white noise of modernity, a more meditative state of flow becomes apparent by a deeper listening to telluric sound fields as a ritual type of ‘return and repair’ with Nature.

- Andrei Jewell, Gulf of Siam