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Clearing, Wakehurst Place
by Beth Dow

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This picture was shot south of London, where I used to live, and is from my project In the Garden. While most people love gardens for their beauty, I’m seduced by something else entirely, and my favorite landscapes are overgrown, shaggy and a bit off their game. Gardens attempt to control and dominate nature, but nature resists—it bolts, leans and withers, and isn’t as malleable as we pretend. These places use the familiar conventions of centuries of garden making, yet their forms are still surprising. My photographs are not topographical descriptions, and color is irrelevant. Instead, I use the land before me as a jumping-off point, implying light and shadow as a way to create my own path through the garden. By guiding the viewer’s eye through a picture, I feel that I too am a gardener in a sense.

I’m after that “slant of curious light” that is the genius of place. My photographs describe the territory between appearance and experience, and extend the moment when I first glimpse something extraordinary—that purely sensory flash before things make sense. They were shot quickly with a hand-held camera, yet are composed to emphasize the still, subtle hum and buzz of insects and rustling leaves. I use the warm tones of early landscape photography, and the richness of my platinum process complements the experiment in immortality that is a cultivated landscape.

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Clearing, Wakehurst Place

by Beth Dow

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These prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish. These prints were produced from a Platinum-palladium original. The originals are available through Jen Bekman Gallery. Please email collector@20x200.com for more information.

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