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23" H x 17" W x 0.1" D x 1 lbs
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Dapples No. 1 explores the fleeting patterns created when sunlight, water and the natural world intersect. Rather than documenting the landscape directly, these works photograph its reflection, where light fractures across the water's surface, dissolving familiar forms into shifting fields of colour and abstraction.
Captured along the waterways of the south east coast of Australia, the image transforms seaweed, oysters shells, sand and sky into fluid compositions that hover between representation and painting. The camera records moments that exist for only an instant, where movement, light and reflection combine to produce images that cannot be repeated.
This work invites a slower way of seeing. What initially appears abstract gradually resolves into traces of the natural world, reminding us that perception is never fixed but constantly shaped by light, time and movement. In an age of environmental uncertainty, Dapples No. 1 celebrates the quiet beauty of everyday ecosystems while encouraging a renewed attentiveness to the fragile relationships between water, light and landscape. It occupies the space between photography and abstraction, asking viewers not simply to look at nature, but to experience its rhythms through the ever-changing language of reflected light.
Year Created
2024
Colors
Red
Materials & Tools
Sony (Camera)
Search Terms
photographynaturereflectionsseaocean
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Katherine Boland
Australia
My artistic practice is rooted in a deep engagement with the environmental crises of our time. As a multidisciplinary artist, I merge traditional and digital media to reflect the fragility of the natural world and respond to the growing impacts of climate change, bushfires, and ecological loss.
The 2019/20 Australian bushfires had a profound impact on my work, pushing me to explore imagery that moves between beauty and devastation. I’m drawn to how nature endures and transforms—ideas I express through layering, fragmentation, and abstraction.
My process is fluid and grounded in materiality. It often begins with photography—capturing burned timber, landscapes, ephemeral light, and organic matter. These images form the base for digital collages that evolve through intuition and technique. I sometimes integrate AI-generated elements, blending the natural with the synthetic to mirror the uneasy relationship between nature and human intervention. This work is both warning and requiem—an invitation to look more closely at the world around us. Through visual storytelling, I hope to stir reflection on what’s at stake and what’s still possible in a future shaped by care, urgency, and change.