Bullock / Editions / Photographic Knotworks

These photographic works are further developments of my research into, and fascination with, mathematical, theoretical knots. The metal knot sculptures photographed in landscapes I refer to as ‘Topological interventions’, topology being the branch of mathematics related to knot theory. I am also starting to make films of these events, where the construction of the knot in the landscape creates a form of performance art that exists for a very short space of time; the only record of its existence being the film or photograph. The knot images as in ‘The Unsaid’ I call spectral knots, ephemeral ghost knots that never truly exist except in the image from the camera. These knots are all made live in one exposure with no digital manipulation; again these can be seen as a record or document of perfomative art.

‘The Unsaid’ 2019, 70cm x 100cm.

Direct archival giclee to aluminium panel (editioned).

‘Topological Intervention #3 (forest)’ 2019

Direct archival giclee to aluminium panel (editioned).

‘Topological Intervention #1 (land)’ 2019, 70cm x 100cm.

Direct archival giclee to aluminium panel (editioned).

‘Topological Intervention #2 (water)’ 2023, 70cm x 100cm.

Direct archival giclee to aluminium panel (editioned).