Plastic Topography takes the notion of the ‘landscape photograph’ and abstracts it from the familiar while remaining representational. The series documents the form of food wrap manipulations when exposed on photographic film to form a photogram. This ‘greyscale’ image and inversions thereof form horizons, peaks and the rises and falls in terrain.

Topography – the relief features or surface configuration of an area

For many their interaction with ‘topography’ is through maps often more specifically Ordnance Survey maps. The large scale examples which make up Plastic Topography come folded unfurling to reveal the fractures in the cling film that convene to present the land forms they represent.