Altitudes

Medium: Photograph (Framed White)
Date: 2025
Dimensions: 1100 x 800 mm

This image, included in the Material World exhibition 2026,  is a meditation on perception, transformation, and place.

What looks like a landscape, is actually a photograph of fabric. By cxploring everyday fabrics – linen, cotton, denim, and sheer textiles – using slow shutter speeds and natural light to create images that evoke vast, elemental landscapes.

What appears at first glance as rolling mountains, tidal currents, or mist drifting across water is, in fact, an intimate study of material in motion. The familiar is dissolved into something expansive and atmospheric, inviting viewers toquestion where reality ends and imagination begins.

Presented at DEPOT 3 Vic Road, in close proximity to the shifting waters of the Waitematā Harbour and the surrounding maunga, this exhibition subtly echoes its environment. The works resonate with the rhythms of sea and land, suggesting a quiet dialogue between constructed image and lived landscape. Layers ripple like tide and terrain, reflecting both the physical geography of Devonport and the emotional landscapes we carry within us.

Material World offers a moment of stillness – an invitation to look again, and to find the extraordinary within the ordinary.

Image description: Acid-free white matboard; photograph printed on lustre paper and mounted to foamboard.  White matboard and standard 2mm glass. Ready to hang with D-rings and hanging cord.

Unframed prints available please contact toitoa@depot.org.nz