Capital 20, Katse Dam, 2015
Excerpt from: https://lenscratch.com/2018/08/south-africa-week-4/
In the course of his work with residents, Southwood also began to feel impacted by the sheer presence of the dam itself. The water body sits below the vantage point of surrounding roads and it gave him a constant feeling of vertigo and a sense of looming danger. He further describes feeling the dam as a “sinister presence” and as something that unnaturally exerts a psychic weight onto those around it. “The sensation of being at the dam is claustrophobic because it’s omnipresent, vast and dead. It’s like living near a beached whale which never goes away,” he says, “it’s claustrophobic in the sense that one is unable to escape, rather than being in a confined space.”
Unframed Archival inkjet on Hahnemuhle 300 gsm
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