“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, August 16, 2012

Harry Nankin's Syzygy


Exposed by the sky on clear moonless nights at Lake Tyrrell near Swan Hill, Harry Nankin’s remarkable glass-mounted photographs of scrambling insects and twinkling galaxies are literally made of congealed starlight. Unprecedented in the history of photography Syzygy reflects “photo-poetically” upon time, space and our increasingly troubled relationship with the non-human world.

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