book stek, © 2018, Art Paper Editions, Text touching ground by Stefan Vanthuyne
All images © Els Martens
How do we look at a photograph of a place when there are no anchor points? How do we approach the surface of a landscape, rendered flat in an image, when there is no significant horizon, or when there are no trees for scale? Onto what do we cling our gaze? (Rocks, solid as they may be, are deceptive in size and therefore unreliable.)
‘Stek’ is a word that speaks of a certain space, or a certain spot in a certain space.
How do we look at a photograph of a place when there are no anchor points? How do we approach the surface of a landscape, rendered flat in an image, when there is no significant horizon, or when there are no trees for scale? Onto what do we cling our gaze? (Rocks, solid as they may be, are deceptive in size and therefore unreliable.)
‘Stek’ is a word that speaks of a certain space, or a certain spot in a certain space.