Beauty of the Horrid
Like William Gilpin, of one the founders of ‘the picturesque’ genre in England, I make pictures on my travels, but without going out of my way,
as he did to search for picturesque England. I wondered if it was possible to find the picturesque in the everyday commuting routes I took at that time (mostly in southern England, UK), the edge of motorways, paths, parks, tourist spots or other typical places that are easily accessible to
most people. (Gilpin’s starting point had been from the New Forest in Hampshire.) I took pictures aiming to invoke the picturesque as a
historical or allegorical mode of imaging and imagining, but one historically distant to the moral values of Gilpin.
