Diver Duo : The Crystal Cove Cantos

Gold Toned Print on Fibre Based Paper

Being, Nothingness and the close connection to Nature

“Based on an isolated headland, on a jungle island in Thailand’s Gulf of Siam has been a calling to journey into the frequencies of Nature’s sounds. These works are informed by this sense of place, while living with the ocean for an extensive period of time. The shoreline and the forest inhabit a space where the invisible influence of sound is intimately woven throughout the fabric of my experience here with the site specific spatiality of sound and the transformative spaces they generate. Visually these works are both a record of sonic influences upon states of being and a reference to memory while being in raw Nature. The whispers of this ‘breathing edge of the land’ create a living dialogue that can be mapped and explored, opening up a wider perception. Witnessed, unimpeded by the static noise of modernity, a more meditative state of flow becomes apparent through a deeper listening to the vast array of sounds present, inducing a ritual type of ‘return and repair’ with self. Nurture remembering Nature.”

- Andrei Jewell, Gulf of Siam