pictures of sound

Posted by Fabio 8 March 2011

Depicting the coastal islands outside Vancouver, pictures is an enigmatic landscape portrait caught by a stationary camera. Reducing land and water into colour gradations on a flat plane, Richard Kerr compresses and fragments temporality to focus on the gradual shifts and rhythms of light. Boats that penetrate the frame serve as reminders of the artificial world, and indeed, of the medium itself.