Eleanor Cunningham United Kingdom Mix Media

This work is part of a series created using photographs from various locations in the Scottish highlands. A remote area of natural beauty, but also, I feel, full of ghosts.

 

The manipulative and disrupting quality in each of my series highlights the way we are becoming increasingly distracted by our own thoughts and preoccupations, memories or recollections that we do not really register where we are. I am set on this idea that we have some sort of screen between us and the world we are facing. Realised as a dissolving, coloured cloud of mist, or smoke, hovering over an abandoned or overlooked space, these particular works are also warnings: distraction may be seductive, but it’s important to remember the importance of being present in our lives at all times.