Noel Myles 'Down to Earth'

The depiction of landscape usually implies making images of land and sky. Despite compelling paintings of skies by many artists including Turner and Constable, they were rarely presented as autonomous, independent works but more as studies to be used for reference in the studio and incorporated into paintings, whether they were landscapes or portraits containing landscapes as a setting. Paintings of landscapes were not usually complete without an attached sky.

As our eyes face forwards, we have a natural tendency to look towards the illusory conjunction of land and sky which we call the horizon. If we move towards it, it continuously changes. We never manage to reach what we saw beforehand from our previous standpoint. The land and the sky never touch. With this in mind, I decided to make my landscape compositions by photographing straight downwards, just in front of my feet, taking one frame after another as…