NAMIBIA #2 | 20in. x 30in. | Archival Dye Sublimation on Dibond Aluminum | Limited Edition 1/8

GATWARD, Colin

(Canada)

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 This image is from the series ‘IM/permanence’, which examines the mutability of our homes and societal structures, and is influenced by the frequent moves my family made during my childhood.  This left me with questions of powerlessness felt during childhood, and accompanying uncertainty and instability about the essence of ‘home’. This series recaptures that sense of the fragile nature of our homes and the impermanence that change brings. This image inside Kolmanskop, an abandoned diamond mine in SW Namibia reveal how, with each day, the surrounding desert sand encroaches further into the homes and civic buildings - its purpose to subsume and eventually eradicate the evidence of human toil and disruption in this most natural of places - while demonstrating the power of nature to impact our lives despite our efforts to control and contain it.

- Colin Gatward