GARRY FABIAN MILLER – VOYAGE
2013-09-16“I look west, creature of the horizon, rapt in contemplation at the edge between finite and infinite. Others have invoked magic
or sought religion to bridge this place but as scientific thought evolves such hopes fall away. Alone, I attempt to make myself at
home in the world, inhabiting some middle place between the known and the unknowable, struggling to accept that here and
now is all, never quite able to accept this fate.
In the mid 1970’s I looked out as a teenager across the Bristol Channel. Sections of England: The Sea Horizon was the start of
this wondering. Then it was enough to stand and stare, to minutely observe the flux of weather and seasonal change. I observed
the great tidal shifts of the Severn Estuary synchronised by lunar cycles. I witnessed the sun’s arrival and departure each day. As I
stood still, encircled by this constant pull of energy, somehow the passage of time was absorbed into my thought. In all the years
since, I have sought out the sea and its horizon and over time it has encroached upon my consciousness, so that even when
home and inland, I carry it close.
As I walk on home ground, the eastern shoulder of Dartmoor, the sea and its horizon hold the east, so that in mid-winter I can
watch the sun rise from the sea’s horizon. Looking west from the high ground of Hameldown’s ridge, 1745 feet above sea level, I
feel the pull of the Atlantic ocean, sense its weather systems come sweeping over the open moor. Over these western hills, I
watch the sun return to the sea.
The new series Middle Place and Voyage conclude the internal horizons that I have made in the darkroom. These are imagined
spaces, existing at the margins of vision, places held in the mind, an accumulation of all the seaward searching and projected
thought, its distilled essence. This is an intense world saturated with colour, atmosphere, and emotion. Here everything becomes
possible, yet everything can end. In Voyage the shutters edge in, the sky space begins to darken and close. We sail out and
perhaps will blaze and burn, extinguished as beautiful sparks
Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2013
HackelBury Fine Art
4 Launceston Place
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
London
W8 5RL
