Complicated Concealment

Complicated Concelament, 2017 Image Credit: Ella Morton.

In this ongoing photographic series I attempt to disguise my presence by means of camouflage through an act of performance. This removal of self is an act of reverence. By means of this disguise, and by laying down midst the natural elements, I hope to ingratiate myself to her (mother nature), give myself up as an offering and be allowed to commune with all living things in harmony. It is an act of becoming part of something bigger than self, to connect with the immensity of being. It is a form of reflective nostalgia, a forward-looking commitment that builds on previous connection and intensity to a place of the past. Georgian Bay is, and is never, just a place in the past.

In her book “Performing Ground”, Laura Levin comments that camouflage “need not involve the total disappearance of a body into a space or precise mirroring of surroundings. Instead, it implies a process of performative correspondence: embedding oneself, or becoming embedded, in the surrounding environment through the physical and visual stylization of the body”.

Excerpt from Upcoming Artist Book Project

Image is Part of a Series Taken in 2017 When I Returned To Do A Photographic Art Project