Richard Horvath Australia

Nature : 'Nature' was made at the same time and for the same reason as the 'Ecology' pictures. It was partly a study in blacks; Mars black, the thick black paper used to pack photo-sensitive materials and the black of India Ink. It was irresistible then to add a vividly coloured patch of marbled paper with the silveriness of the solder wire and the pearl lustre of the stylised lens flare of the moonbeam. It's a contradictory picture containing corniness, a comic book crudeness and a certain lyrical subtlety.
Ecology #1 Ecology #2 : Giving a picture a title such as Ecology suggests an environmental theme but his wasn't something I was overtly concerned about in this case. The title is slightly ironic because my interest was fundamentally about the visual spectacle of people immersed in water and possible metaphoric meanings were secondary. I'll leave it to the viewer to make up their own mind what these pictures mean (as they inevitably will do anyhow) but the aesthetic outcome of 'Ecology #1' with its odd colours, the coarse rendering of the banks next to the finely toned and textured scene in the water I think is less in doubt.