Dashing back and forth, thought wanders. It is related to looking. I need a momentary glimpse—a slight clearing in the midst of an incongruous landscape—and from there, I try to piece together the perfect land, made of fragments mixed with signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them. The clearing takes time: first, patience, vibrations, attention, then humility. My train through Piedmont flashes past villages and hills. Because my window is my companion for re-looking, I am fascinated with the perception of light & darkness. In the fog, the self remains fluid, loading with perpetuity.
Bio
Marina Black is a photographer living in Canada. Black originally studied history and painting. While her interest in either hasn’t diminished, it has added new dimensions to her photography, which has become her main focus. Marina makes pictures relying on her intuition and creating a surreal universe where in the bid of remembrance, consciousness clashes with the expansiveness of the inquiry of our subconsciousness as a key to unlocking beautiful and unsettling love songs to the wordless world. She combines fiction with reality, the past with the present, depicting both individual anxieties
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