Rae Begley, Towers of the Goddess 2022 (LANDSCAPE & ENVIRONMENT)

'Towers of the Goddess' is from the series ‘On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing’ - Mother Nature in all her glory. The landscape features the back view of the iconic ‘towers’ of the Paine mountain range, shot whilst trekking through the Torres Del Paine national park in Patagonia, Chile ‘On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing’ an exhibition of photographs reflects on nature, on Earth as a living organism. The photographs were made with a slow intensity of exploration through the physical act of walking and site-responsive connections to remote environments. Performative in the process of their creation, each work is happened upon, captured during physically demanding expeditions. Geological landscapes, otherworldly scenes and elements of human interference become found moments in time and space, evoking environmental and philosophical questions. ‘On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing’ is a meditation on time. As humans, we are slow to act to protect the environment from our own destruction, to halt its decline, to care for home, our golden earth. The series includes work developed during an artist residency with La Wayaka Current in the indigenous community of Coyo in the Atacama Desert, Chile, the driest non-polar desert in the world.

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