from the series Travelling the wonderful loneliness 2019-2024
April 2024
This week I’m devoting the weekly posting to my own work because otherwise it gets totally ignored which is hard. But the point with art is that you make it for yourself, not for others. Making images feeds my soul, my spirit and it has helped incredibly with my mental health over the last 33 years (I suffer from depression, PTSD, anxiety disorder and bipolar).
I have followed my dream of being an artist through thick and thin since 1990. I chose that path in life and have kept true to that, for which I am incredibly grateful and proud. And I keep making art, creating a large body of work which is a legacy the life of which we can’t account for. Onward…
This sequence (my favourite in my latest body of work), Dark Light, is one of the four sequences in the series collectively titled Travelling the wonderful loneliness (2019-2024). Traces of order / chaos seen clearly; previsualisation was strong.
My friend and mentor Ian Lobb said:
“This is the most difficult work to organise yet. There is something to see in every picture – but it is so subtle – not everyone will see it, but it is for people who look at pictures a lot.
It all works brilliantly, and they are all like that – there are subtle things that can’t be traced: i.e. are they the photographer: or are they the camera or are they just inevitable in this world? It is a type of anti-spirituality meets spirituality… and any number of other meeting points.”
My friend Elizabeth Gertsakis said:
“Spatial as well as surface tactile. Fascinated randomness. The human figure appears as a singular frozen device. Post-apocalyptic as well.”
I said:
“The spirit has left the earth, the body; something is not quite right; ambiguous forces of the (under) world are at play.”
Dr Marcus Bunyan
50 images
© Marcus Bunyan
Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Other sequences in the series include Material Witness; Tell Me Why; and (How I) Wish You Were Here (all 2019-2024).
Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ print costs $1,000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see the Store web page.