DAVID WISE / WATERFALLS

Tiffany Falls, Box Brownie camera fitted with tin pinhole lens, 1 second exposure
Sherman Falls I, Box Brownie camera fitted with tin pinhole lens, 2 minute exposure
Sherman Falls II, Bencini Comet camera fitted with tin pinhole lens, 5 second exposure

Artist Statement: These days, before I shoot, I tell myself that the results will likely have somebody’s attention for only 10 seconds, if I’m lucky. So what do I want to offer them in that brief time? What do I care about most? Nature is my best answer, as yet. I do want to continue with my previous, more confessional, style of work, but am struggling with how to relay the experience of inequality and injustice without also breathing new life into the trauma it created. Art can be a trojan horse for so many things, smuggling stuff into people’s hearts without us or they knowing about it. So often our work is viewed as a form of relaxation or leisure, so people’s guards are down as they scroll their phones and see or hear our output. Having come from an English punk rock background, I wonder now how much of all that did anything other than fan air on the patriarchal, capitalistic fire we were trying to put out. So, whilst I work a better delivery method out, I focus on an area I’m more confident about. If the trojan horse is going to smuggle something, let it be a love of nature.

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