![]() ![]() I recorded my own written responses to the landscape in my diary as I too immersed myself in this wild place. My aim was to photograph the spaces he so vividly described and to create my own visual response to the landscape, as he had when writing his diary. My own time spent in Dungeness in the summer of 2020 was inspired by the literary descriptions of Jarman and a desire to engage and explore what he had found so mesmerising. Published as Modern Nature, Jarman’s diary is a poetic record of his life between 19, and recounts the wilderness of Dungeness and his time spent at Prospect Cottage in reflective detail. Jarman described in his diary his experiences of nature and the landscape surrounding his home. With declining health, Jarman engaged with the landscape of Dungeness and returned to his first loves of gardening and nature. Jarman had purchased Prospect Cottage impulsively with an inheritance received from his father and used it as a second home and as a source of escape from his central London studio. The artist, writer and film director Derek Jarman spent much of his later life on the shingle of Dungeness at his home, Prospect Cottage. These images show Eboli, a small town in southern Italy, but they could be the portrait of any other suburban place today. Places that ask to be considered as real presences. Repertoires of heterogeneous objects, now devoid of any ambition, which nevertheless deserve something more than a distracted perception. Abandoned things, but still waiting for something. We walk through these places to recognize them in their consistency of houses, streets, open spaces, fences, terrains vagues. Places to literally put back under our feet to explore them against the indifference and oblivion to which they are destined, even though they are the landscapes we frequent most often and have before our eyes more than others. A collage of visions of places like out-of-place: so distant, yet so close in our daily existence. We propose here a fragment of survey of contemporary peripheral states. A matter that these places release in times and ways not always easy to understand. They are filled with a matter of their own, with a variable degree of consistency/evanescence. Places live an existence partly independent from those who live there, cross them, observe them. (Fuori-luoghi: storie e geografie del periferico) Out-of-place(s): Histories and Geographies of the Peripheral
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