Lindsay Webb: Forest For The Trees
For Australian artist Lindsay Webb, Forest for the trees is a photographic project inviting entwined participation in treed spaces. Building up compound views of plant, insect, animal, fungal and weather networks, it entreats the estranged element — humans — to reestablish deep connection.
“An illusionary space where we expose something not explained.”
Forest for the trees is an ongoing project exploring the lived experience within treed spaces. It is a compound view opening a series of complex relationships with the world. The world of plants, animals and fungi imploring us as their estranged partner to re-enter their (our) domain. The tree as a heroic figure - stoic, individual, magnificent - is a common trope of landscape painting and photography. Forest for the trees eschews this reading by adopting a preference for the field condition - the ecosystem is paramount. Here viewers observe not any individual or exemplary specimen, but are invited to enter an immersive and beguiling complexity. The emergent spaces in Forest for the trees are immediately recognisable yet simultaneously strange and remote, an illusionary space where we expose something not explained.
Lindsay Webb
Lindsay is an artist working through installation, sound and photography. He studied architecture in Sydney, Australia, followed by Conceptual Design at the Städelschule (State Academy of Fine Art) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Since 2013, he has been primarily working in the arts and has exhibited in Australia, Japan, China and Europe.
In 2020he began a new phase working extensively
In photo media, which describes his current output where typically he explores perceptual stability using the landscape as the medium. His goal is to create new readings of familiar forms and spaces that might stimulate deep meditations with the world.
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