Dreams of a Place We Have Lived
Toronto: Something To Think About, 2023.
ISBN: 9781778284717
Condition: As New
Hardcover
First Edition
150 pp
28.5 x 42.5 cm
SIGNED
Lisa Klapstock’s artist’s book, “dreams of a place we have lived”, comprises a series of intimate landscape p¬ortraits made in a central Ontario forest dear to her. Over the past decade, Klapstock has become acutely sensitized to the nuances of the forest eco-system. The smell and feel of the air; the variable weather; the patterns and shades of water; the birdsong; the creatures large and small; the ever-changing colours and density of plants and trees; t¬¬he temperature of stone…. She began this work reflecting on the ways the natural world is often depicted - as a decorative backdrop in tourist photographs and advertising, or a digitally enhanced fantasy - and how this prolific representation increases our alienation from Nature at the same time it is disappearing.
Klapstock set out to make portraits in which the details of Nature are the focus of the photographs. The book is a kind of filmic dreamscape depicting various solitary female characters communing with Nature through their postures, and their dress - reflecting the colours, patterns, and tempers of the immediate environment. The characters are Klapstock herself. She is both subject and photographer. Item #25349
Price: $150.00
