Turning Leaves - Neil Cameron
2 Castle St, Dunedin, Otago
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This exhibition presents a series of photographs by Auckland/Dunedin photographer Neil Cameron, taken to accompany a cycle of poems by Buddhist Nun Ani Kunzang, published in 2018 as “Turning Leaves: Poems of Impermanence and Beauty”. The poems serve as a testimony “to the losses which Buddhist philosophy talks so clearly about in its teachings”, according to the volume’s editor Rebecca Reid. Yet, Reid continues, “The poems also honour the beauty and fleeting nature of the moment”. In “Blueskin Bay Haiku III”, the poet writes “Stillness blown upon by the North, Leaves lightly dance. In the wild of space”.
The book itself is the product of a collaborative effort on the part of Ani Jampa Kunzang and the photographer Neil Cameron, Working together. During the long winter of 2015 in Dunedin, New Zealand” (au.blurb.com) Cameron uses the photographic apparatus to depict the impression or atmosphere created by a landscape. He does not re-represent what we might see, underlining the unreliability of perception and the impossibility of grasping through our senses the “reality” of the world we live. His sensitive and haunting abstractions hint at precisely what we cannot see- that which remains once “we have shuffled off” what Hamlet called “this mortal coil”.
Koru NZ Art
Dunedin
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