Mia Dudek
London - Penzance
Since the invention of train our perception of a landscape has drastically changed. A traveller experiencing nature from behind a window automatically starts to frame it and perceive as image. Witnessing the elusiveness and ungraspability of the landscape from this vantage point, drove us to capture it and posses it.
Investigating the idea around the overpowering force of nature, I have focused upon the notion of travelling towards and across nature. As travelling by train was a first experience of film before its actual existence, I have created a film depicting a passing landscape from the traveller's perspective moving from the city to the coast. My approach to representing the relationship between modernity and nature has parallel to Romantic Movement's strong reaction to Industrial Revolution, resulting with return to nature.
This body of work examines the notion of entering space and time; from disembodied vantage point, moving through time, whilst witnessing changing landscape, without having any physical experience thereof. The at times abstract and ambiguous visual form of this film piece, serves as an attempt to capture what is ungraspable within nature. The continuous flow of images creates a sense of non-space and depth, yet whilst bringing forth a landscape as an archetype.