Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain
| dc.contributor.advisor | Josephy, Svea | |
| dc.contributor.author | van der Merwe, Eugene | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-30T16:51:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-30T16:51:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-06-30T15:01:40Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In my MFA project Unstable Ground: A Photographic Reflection on the Landscape of Table Mountain, I have photographed the landscape of Table Mountain, surrounding parks and green spaces to reflect on the entanglements between its history, notions of nature and landscape and subjective relationships to place. I have tried to make sense of this site through my photographs, research, and writing, not looking for stability but seeking to reveal the precarious, the in-between, the unseeable, while also trying to learn more about my own relationship with this landscape and land and how it allows or denies photographic representation. Table Mountain's geology, composed of layers of rock and sediment, is overlaid on its surface with human impositions, and its cultural history is similarly composed of the sedimented layers of meaning brought to it by all those who have interacted with the site over time. These layers and erasures contribute to this project's reading of the site as a palimpsest. Each place I photographed represented multiple stories, multiple opinions, multiple histories and multiple points of view, and I have used different methods of layering in my photographs to evoke these strata and deposits. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | van der Merwe, E. (2022). <i>Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36592 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | van der Merwe, Eugene. <i>"Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36592 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | van der Merwe, E. 2022. Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36592 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - van der Merwe, Eugene AB - In my MFA project Unstable Ground: A Photographic Reflection on the Landscape of Table Mountain, I have photographed the landscape of Table Mountain, surrounding parks and green spaces to reflect on the entanglements between its history, notions of nature and landscape and subjective relationships to place. I have tried to make sense of this site through my photographs, research, and writing, not looking for stability but seeking to reveal the precarious, the in-between, the unseeable, while also trying to learn more about my own relationship with this landscape and land and how it allows or denies photographic representation. Table Mountain's geology, composed of layers of rock and sediment, is overlaid on its surface with human impositions, and its cultural history is similarly composed of the sedimented layers of meaning brought to it by all those who have interacted with the site over time. These layers and erasures contribute to this project's reading of the site as a palimpsest. Each place I photographed represented multiple stories, multiple opinions, multiple histories and multiple points of view, and I have used different methods of layering in my photographs to evoke these strata and deposits. DA - 2022 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Fine Art LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2022 T1 - Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain TI - Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36592 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36592 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | van der Merwe E. Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2022 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36592 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Michaelis School of Fine Art | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | Fine Art | |
| dc.title | Unstable ground: a photographic reflection on the landscape of Table Mountain | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MFA |