Signal to a distant city.

Written By Christopher Pearce
Long exposure seascape with a single yellow and blue navigation marker standing in calm blue-grey water, a faint hazy city skyline barely visible on the horizon beneath a soft gradient sky.

Signal to a distant city. 2020.

A single navigation marker stands in the centre of the frame, its yellow and blue bands the only sharp punctuation in a field of soft water and sky. The long exposure has turned the bay into a flat sheet of tone, and the horizon into a faint line where a ghost of the city hangs in the mist. The piece sits between solitude and connection, using distance and empty space to ask what it means to be oriented toward a place that is present but barely seen, a whole skyline reduced to a memory sitting on the edge of a very quiet sea.

200 mm • f/2.8 • 30 sec, ISO 400

Christopher Pearce
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