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Marina McAlpine
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REFLECTION - series
reflection 1

My lifelong passion for photography and my fascination with Venice unite in these photographs in which I focus on the interplay between external reality and imagination. At the centre of my artistic output has always been the exploration of the impact of the visual on our imagination, and for me no other place lends itself better to this than Venice.

I see Venice's unique position in the Lagoon as the fusion of the solidity of stone with the constant motion of water. This interplay between the fixed and the moving, between light and dark, mirror for me the endlessly shifting states of the mind which I observe in my work as a practising psychotherapist. My photographs reflect this theme. Here stone becomes water, water becomes stone, and the viewer is drawn through the steady outer appearance of the world into more uncertain, mysterious depths, the realm of fantasy and imagination that we turn to whenever we want to explore what lies behind the obvious.

reflection 2
In search of a means to capture in my pictures a world beyond the visual I became drawn to the way the movement of water dissolves the static form of the reflections, thus creating images that invoke another dimension. Alongside these "Reflection" photographs we see a series of objects floating in Venice's canals. Bereft of their everyday purpose and meaning they appear surreal and resemble in their timeless presence the still-lives of the northern painters.
underwater country

Each picture is part of a signed limited edition of 20 and is available as a C- and R-type hand print or Giclee Fine Art Print.

Prices for A3-A2 image-sizes range from £180.00 to £360.00. Giclee Fine Art Prints can be printed up to size A0 - prices upon request.

Marina McAlpine
email chrisbramble@yahoo.com