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Helen Sear, Winter Stack, 2015
Helen Sear, Winter Stack, 2015
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Helen Sear, Winter Stack, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven, Holland, 2019
Helen Sear, Winter Stack, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven, Holland, 2019
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Helen Sear, Winter Stack, Centre for British Photography, London, 2023
Helen Sear, Winter Stack, Centre for British Photography, London, 2023
Helen Sear
Winter Stack, 2018
Inkjet print on Birch plywood. UV Varnish
100 x 200 x 8 cms
39 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 3 1/8 ins
39 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 3 1/8 ins
13649
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Winter Stack is a from a series of composite works that respond to the natural environment and our relationship to it. A 'landscape, it is constructed from a hundred images...
Winter Stack is a from a series of composite works that respond to the natural environment and our relationship to it. A "landscape, it is constructed from a hundred images stitched together images.
Sear questions whether it is possible to have a view of nature without incorporating the human presence. She emphasises that what she records is not something that is separate or distant from her. Instead she is a part of nature and the experience is immersive. One way she does this is by disrupting a fixed-point perspective in many of her large composite works. The viewer follows her as she moves around, looks up and down, travels from the front to the back. In denying a fixed-point perspective and stitching her images together, she creates multi-layered landscapes. Ultimately, what Sear achieves in her composites is an active, rather than a static viewing.