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from the series PARKING SPACE 3X3’ colour photograph 2002
The idea of path communicated through pho- tographs of this urban landscape recalls a pedestrian, or non-car, culture. Conversely, the photos of these parking lots possess a silence and stillness — a space for reflection. To realize space through an investigation into the everyday provides a vehicle by which to explore the human experience within and of landscape, while simultaneously exploring awareness of self through these meditative in- between spaces. Katherine Bourke is a semi-nomadic visual artist and writer with a BFA & MFA in photography whose next locale is London, England to pursue graduate work in photography and urban cultures. www.citywalker.ws
n awareness of oneself, or how one belongs to and interacts with the world, is primarily realized through one’s experience of in-between spaces — an experience that is contingent on the flux of time, place, and identity. The in-between space found through walking generates a lucid mind and a displaced body. Urban landscape photographs — vacant of util- ity — are slices of space subverted from the familiar; ordinary landscapes are made extra- ordinary. Still photographs of intersections and commuter platforms paradoxically arrest and embrace vitality, movement, and passage.
Parking space Katherine Bourke
All photos are of the past, yet in them an instant of the past is arrested so that, unlike a lived past, it can never lead to the present. Between the moment photographed and the present there is an abyss.
John Berger, Another Way of Telling
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