Wasted View #9116 - Orlando Luminere

Wasted View #9116 by NSW artist Orlando Luminere  - Finalist in the 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape.

In this image ‘Wagstaffe #9116’ from my photographic ‘Wasted Views’ series I use a camera fashioned from a discarded steel trashcan to explore and question our relationship with consumption and implicitly, with waste. With this hand-built camera obscura, equipped with digital capabilities, I seek beautiful landscapes to be reflected inside a trash bin, turning what we normally see as rubbish into a photographically unpredictable and difficult-to-control vessel for holding beauty. In this image we see a central artefact suggesting sail-like spirits on the water. This camera, I hope, challenges our tendency to relate to the environment through disposable smartphones, with experience filtered and validated through often uncontrolled and unpredictable social media. By transforming waste into a tool for art, I hope to inspire a conversation to rethink how we perceive value and beauty, and validate this for ourselves and our society in our everyday lives.

Materials: Giclée print from camera obscura with digital capture 
Dimensions (cm): 62 H x 80 W

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