The text below has been written in response to and in dialogue with the work of photographer Katja Hock, and will be published as part of her
forthcoming exhibition Stille Fragmente at Djanogly Arts Gallery, Nottingham, September 2012.
The text explores the woodland as a specific spatial, temporal and conceptual site of indeterminacy, a liminal territory (or power) with the capacity to offer the receptive initiate glimpses of an anti-structural or subjunctive realm, in moments where a deep ‘vertical’ register of affective, mnemonic or even poetic experience ruptures the horizontal surface of appearances, the illusory reality of what is habitually seen. The text addresses the affirmative possibilities of indeterminacy, whilst exploring tactics for seeing what cannot be seen; the means by which a chance encounter with something glimpsed can nonetheless be prepared for.
The text explores the woodland as a specific spatial, temporal and conceptual site of indeterminacy, a liminal territory (or power) with the capacity to offer the receptive initiate glimpses of an anti-structural or subjunctive realm, in moments where a deep ‘vertical’ register of affective, mnemonic or even poetic experience ruptures the horizontal surface of appearances, the illusory reality of what is habitually seen. The text addresses the affirmative possibilities of indeterminacy, whilst exploring tactics for seeing what cannot be seen; the means by which a chance encounter with something glimpsed can nonetheless be prepared for.