walthamstow marshes

These are some of my images that have inspired this project proposal.

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These photographs belong to a project that I set myself inspired by the vestiges of the industrial era that mark our current landscape, they are testimony to an era of technological advance and a time of invention.

These images were photographed from commuter trains; they are views that every day passengers see on their way to work. I took them through the glass of the train window. I played with the relationship inbetween the landscape and myself, detaching myself from it and capturing its beauty in different weather conditions as if it was part of a movie set, something outside of the ordinary.

I very much like the art produced at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. For me, these particular landscapes are evocative of those captured by Whistler, in the late 19th century, in his landscape paintings of the river Thames (paintings such as Blue and Gold, Early Morning and Nocturne).

He has a quote that reflects on the moodiness and ethereal ambience that envelop his paintings.

He wrote ‘when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry… tall chimneys become campanili and the warehouses are palaces in the night and the whole city hangs in the heavens and fairy land is before us’.

He allows his imagination to capture a moment in time where the weather conditions totally transform the landscape. In my landscapes I also found an air of mystery from the faint forms and at the same time a certain serenity.