Nomad: a photographic voyage

Abstract

The artworks developed and presented within the context of this Doctoral project explore sensibilities and concepts relating to a nomadic experience of the world. Through the making and experiencing of these art works, Deleuzian and Buddhist conceptualisations of body, movement, time and place have been drawn on to inform a highly personal and developing expression of shifting relationships, in both a Deleuzian and a Buddhist sense, between the body and ever-changing geographical and cultural environments. Integral to the generation of these works has been a series of experiences in widely different geographical sites and cultural situations. While travelling and subjectively responding to this range of geographical and social landscapes, stretching from the sublime mountain terrain of the eastern Himalayas to the quotidian experiences of the backyard lawn, an extensive image bank of digital still and moving-image material has been accumulated. This image-bank has been drawn from to facilitate the development of new imagery that reflects upon and extends the psycho-social experience offered by the range of encounters.