Formerly a documentary photographer, Brenda Pelkey turned in 1994 to a category of subject matter that currently manifests itself spatially as landscape–pyschic landscape. They have ususual colours and shapes with a mix of mirrorings and creation of unusual dytpics. The exhibition is composed of large-format prints some grouped in panoramic assemblages, others incorporating cryptic text fragments that hint at tragedy. The most recent were photographed in the vicinity of Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia.
None of the fields, forests or seashores contain figures. Photographed at night (or at twilight with a long exposure), Pelkey’s eerily claustrophic landscapes are illuminated with movie lights. The unnatural light and deep shadows transform these ordinary locales into the mise-en-scènes for melodramas
They in a way look like they are from horror movie sets, or even from a drug induced state.
The lighting creates a large part of the atmosphere.
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