Transformation…intimate
detail…grand scale: the photography and artworks ofJessica Sanders. This Sydney based photographer’s most profound artworks
are her digital photographic landscapes which work on a large scale to create an
effect of the sublime. Her current work in this style follows the
transformation of a “chameleon” subject within a collaged panoramic image to
investigate concepts on identity, plurality, metamorphosis, time, ability of
change and the forming of boundaries. Her earlier panoramic photographs use
cross processing to create an eerie atmosphere, alluding to themes of the
subconscious and dreaming. Another of
her artworks also presents a landscape on a large scale, however dissects the
vista into several intimate close-up images which as a whole form a gestalt of
the location. This technique of focusing on finite detail can be observed in
many of her works, using a range of subject matter from the natural, domestic
and urban environments. Aside from art-making, she also works as a free-lance
photographer and graphic designer, producing images of events, weddings and material
for commercial use.