You may do so now or when you ask a question. Richard Lyle (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP)īefore we start, convener, may I remind members of my registered interest? The Convener
#DARK AND LIGHT TAMING WILDNESS SERIES#
Members have a series of questions for you, which I will kick off. I welcome Andrew Voas, veterinary adviser, and Angela Lawson, solicitor. We are joined by officials from the Scottish Government’s team who have been working on the bill. I have used a large format 8×10” camera and all works are analogue gelatin silver prints, toned using selenium or sepia.The second item of business is an evidence session on the Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (Scotland) Bill. In the end, perhaps it is not about the potatoes or the photographs - but an attempt to adapt whatever the actual circumstances, and to create something controlled and beautiful out of the chaos that is beyond our command.Īll photographs are titled with the date they were shot, together with the working titles from my darkroom notebooks. To avoid the unnecessary mistakes and to master what carries a meaning for yourself. My markings on my photographic process remind me of my grandfather’s potatoe diary - the attempt is the same. To succeed, he’d go through his markings not to make the same mistake twice and to repeat the successful experiments. This diary included all smallest notes on each year’s cycle and its changes - and of course, summed up the highlights of the harvest. Watching my own children on a summer day reminds me of the time I still knew how the imagination works.ĭecades back my grandfather kept a diary on growing potatoes. For the children, garden is a place to play, hide and simply get lazy while we adults try to stop the wilderness taking over. Not only because it is the most beautiful garden, but also for it holds the small cosmos within, and reacts overwhelmingly on every new season. Our garden plays the main scene in the work. It’s also a praise for my family who have given not only theirselves for this work, but also their guidance to learn about the bridge between the light and the darkness. Speed of Dark is a praise for the analogue process with its successes and failures. There was a need to focus what’s too close to me, and to make notes on the photographic process that I so deeply love and hate. I drew a circle around our house and the garden, to photograph within this little area. Each year, by the end of the summer we are already frightened by the following months of darkness, on winter solstice we again hooray the light and bright that is on its way. Four seasons alternating and defining our spirits. Children secretly growing, myself reluctancly aging. Garden waking up, blooming and dying again. The beauty of the mundane, and the beauty of the cycle of the year, so strongly connected to the amount of light - and the dark. Mostly the light is at its most beautiful just before slipping away - or just between the arise and all too bright again.Īll this recent time spent home made me realize how little I see, (or rather - stop and look!), what surrounds me. Observing the light, and the absence of it, becomes obsessive. We live in a country where darkness seems to swallow us every autumn. Nothing controls the process of making a photograph like light, or the lack of it. Although the dark is taking over at times, it’s the light that is leading our way.
« Darkness is both a mental and a concrete matter. She questions our relationship to time and our daily environment, the duality of taming and wildness by instrumentalizing the alternations of light and darkness. Working strictly around her house and the garden, with her close ones, the artist has developed an intimate and personal body of work. Guided by the circumstances she took a deeper look what lies close to her. Here at the gallery, she presents a new series of photographs marked by long periods spent at home in the Finnish countryside. Known for her timeless black and white portraits, mostly of children and young people, Nelli Palomäki takes an enigmatic look at evolving beings, family relationships and memory. After a first solo show in 2018, Galerie Les filles du calvaire is pleased to present Speed of Dark by photographer Nelli Palomäki.
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