Since the beginning we have always tried to understand the importance of our existence and the planet on which we live. Only recently in the last one hundred years have we been able to experience the world from the comfort of our own homes, with the introduction of the media as a tool to visit the unknown and try and understand other cultures and ‘worlds’. As technology has grown so has the media and with that we have been given such things as the Internet. Modern forms of technology were supposed to branch our existence across the globe but gradually they are doing the opposite. We are now able to live our lives completely from the inside, we do not need to venture out and experience things for ourselves. The Internet itself is full of knowledge but this knowledge is just homogenised imagery. On a daily basis we are exposed to thousands of images from all over the planet with no real context, the boundaries between the real and fiction are becoming blurred and so is our knowledge of the world as a whole.

Comparing this observation to the teachings of such existentialist philosophers as Heidegger, Sartre and Kierkegaard we find we have moved away from the importance of existence and personal experience replacing it with artificial experience and knowledge. These philosophers can be brought into the modern day to argue with the amount technology effects our lives.

Using the camera as a brain to capture raw images I have created a body of work over the last year depicting moments in time, moments in my existence. They are not always clear but just like memories they have captured the essence of the space and time. We have no idea of the places these images were taken, they have not been identified or placed although they come from numerous countries such as Germany, Poland and Austria, in the work they are just jumbled memories depicting a time and space. Juxtaposing the importance of a physical space with the idea of a metaphysical landscape; landscapes that have been removed from reality with no identity of time or space. Presenting a body of work that does not try to understand the world but just observes and records.



Daniel Gould