Individual Residencies
2017 | Lee Hassall
During my time in Collemacchia I walked, drew, worked – with still and moving images – and was silent. I used judiciously ‘performed’, carefully ‘attuned’ (spoken) text to layer, alter, shatter, and/or transform normative modes of relating to and representing the picturesque*, landscape or place.
* The etymology of the word ‘picturesque’, is revealed as being after the manner of painters, from the Italian pittoresco. With the Italian derivation ‘pittoresco’ – ‘pittor’ (“painter”), ‘esco’ (“like”), we have the supposition that the picturesque has little to do with landscape itself but is more a case of the picturesque being in the painter (or artist).