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This body of landscape work is concerned with the everyday banality of places and objects. Guy's aim is to make viewers reconsider the aesthetic value of things, by showing beauty within seemingly mundane domains: he is attracted to things that are modest in their visual appeal, yet in one moment can become objects of reverie and fascination. It is this sudden shift in perspective that he is interested in pursuing. By capturing the transient properties of places, he hopes to demonstrate their provisional changes from the unexceptional to the extraordinary in a fleeting moment. The photographs appear as uncanny resemblances of the real world, each with its own ethereal, almost celestial, atmosphere. Through this process he strives to question one's assumptions of the apparently banal by showing the ordinary as both beautiful and mysterious. All of the images are based upon reality, employing no digital manipulation, yet they appear to sit somewhere in between the real and the fantastical. There is often an assumption of validity when considering the photographic image, and this is the core debate Guy's work engages with. The pictures are made in such a way that scale, perspective, and points of reference to the "real" are difficult to grasp. As a result, they appear as if they could well be photographs of dioramas or film sets. This unsettles the viewer as there appears to be a discrepancy between illusion and reality - the objectivity of the camera is brought into question, and the viewer looks at the everyday with a new found curiosity. |
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