Caetera Fumus is an exceptionally large lightbox. It was made for Helen Sear's important solo exhibition ...the rest is smoke commissioned by Arts Council Wales Cymru yn Fenis / Wales in Venice to represent Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2015.

Inspired by Mantegna's painting of Saint Sebastian, a version of which is in Venice, it is similarly pierced with "arrows".

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.British Photography. The Hyman Collection