Reflected Ground: Exploring Identity and Landscape
Some landscapes function as scenery. Others act upon you.
Reflected Ground emerged from the understanding that landscape in Aotearoa is not a backdrop, but an active force. As a New Zealand printmaker working in linocut, I have become increasingly aware that the land does not simply appear in the work — it shapes the way the work is made.
In New Zealand, mountains rise abruptly from plains. Rivers braid and re-form. Weather shifts without negotiation. The terrain feels geological rather than decorative. To live and work within this environment is to feel proportion recalibrated.
Identity, here, forms in relation to land.