On landscape and time
A landscape is never still. The same cove, the same mountain, changes with the hour and the season. The work in Lofoten was an attempt to hold some of that variation in a fixed form—knowing that the fixity is an illusion.
We tend to treat “landscape” as a noun: a view, a picture. It might be more honest to treat it as something that happens between the place and the observer over time.
The camera records a moment, but the moment is already a compromise—between what was there the second before and the second after.
L’appareil enregistre un instant, mais l’instant est déjà un compromis—entre ce qui était là la seconde d’avant et la seconde d’après.
The images in the Lofoten series are not a single trip. They are several visits over years. So the “place” in the work is already a composite: a layering of times as well as viewpoints.