BARBARA MADDEN
My landscape - based exhibition photographic works often focus on environmental threats.
‘MIX Unplugged’ provided me with an opportunity to revisit a theme first explored in ‘refugium’ in 2021 with a work printed on silk, expressing the impact on vulnerable woodlands of increasingly frequent and devastating bushfires in a warming, drying climate.
This time I converted the original images to B&W and experimented with different Photoshop filters to achieve the effect I wanted, of a sparse, stark and sad-looking landscape immediately after severe burns in the Stirling Ranges and the Great Western Woodlands.
I enjoyed printing the images on my home printer on a range of Hahnemuhle fine art photo papers.
 
Stripped
Dye inkjet print on Hahnemuhle cotton rag
42 x 29.7 cm framed
Printed November 2023
 
Scorched
Dye inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo
42 x 29.7 cm framed
Printed November 2023
 
Sentinel
Dye inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Argave
42 x 29.7 cm framed
Printed November 2023

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