Outdoor Lighting

Anu Kumar, Prue Stent and Amy Woodward

For our outdoor series we decided to explore the interaction between the natural landscape and the human form, using native elements derived from the immediate surroundings. The series is inspired and created through playful interactions with nature, exploring expressions of beauty in a freeform collage that slightly twists to the absurd. The interaction between the natural landscape and the organic female form that takes place presents endless opportunities for the creation of a dreamlike pseudo-reality in which any number of meanings can be derived based on the viewers interpretation.

Furthermore, we can interpret the landscape as a metaphor - the pink cliffs are of great importance and relevance to our concept. The flesh-toned, undulating surface of the rocks can both make reference to the physical female form with its peaks and valleys, and the jagged, unpredictable nature of surging emotions. The appearance of the pink cliffs are a result of external stressors; wind, water and time all causing erosion and changes in the landscape - in line with the human experience of being shaped by circumstance.