This picture or representation of quartz was made whilst I was on a coastal poodlewalk in Waitpinga on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia with Maleko, our standard poodle, in the late afternoon. It was made around the same time as this image which is on the same 35mm roll of colour negative film.
If it was overcast in the afternoon we would often wander amongst these rocks on the poodlewalks, as the afternoon light is behind us and the soft light brings out the muted and subtle colours of the rocks and quartz.
This representational image of quartz is deemed to be a document created using a transparent medium to produce an image that is readily intelligible. Hence it is a cliche that needed to be subverted by opening up the photographic process to explore the possibilities of the photographic mediation of the world. That rejection of photographic transparency is the perspective of art history's account of the history of photography and it highlights how the logic of 20th century modernism is a culture of negation.