Experiments
All experiment conducted during this research explored Flusser’s (2000) ideas of the photography apparatus to examine the process of image production, particularly the addition of textual information to create data-scapes where those extra visual aspects of gardens can be visualised. As I previously argued, adding metadata can be described as a process of ordering and making images visible where they are placed as part of a whole. Images are inscribed into a system of relations (Manovich, 2009) that could potentially lead into a new narrative and ways to perceive image. Using the notion of the interval, I aim to work with images as part of a collection, relating them to different production strategies.
The experiments constitute different approaches towards re-categorization as a decolonial (Gómez & Mignolo, 2012) approach to critically consider the hierarchies of those “given” categories of landscape representation. Colonial categories, such as race (which can be read as species categorization native/alien), technology (material conditions in the garden), class (spatial segregation of both study sites), extractive industries (landscape representation as empty places) and others which create a divided perception of our everyday environment.
