Valley
The Valley series is named after the central gully of a book, the shadowy space of the book’s inner spine, the dark vale separating opposing images. Focussing my camera into the recessive gulf at the centre of a forgotten picture book while tilting the pages together invites the two previously separate images to merge together in uncanny union. The process of photographing the half-open book causes the perspectives of the original images to warp and shift, generating new images of deeply weird, paradoxical spaces. The Valley series evokes the collision of different realities and invites the viewer to consider to the possibility that there are unknown worlds adjacent our own and that, given the right conditions, the vacuum that separates these spaces can be breached.
© Jo Israel 2023