This world is so busy, so hard to get away from the noise that we often avoid embracing any silence; acting a little uncomfortable by its presence. Even when it is found, we are easily distracted by the stress in our minds, just as nature’s purest complexity offers a subtle noise within the landscape. I have come to value quiet moments in nature; they allow me time to reconnect with the landscape and try to understand my relationship with it. I find silence in the space between the objects and the voids around them by listening to the landscape and letting the silence speak—before deciding if there’s anything to add to it.
These photographs are my rendition of nature, offering a quiet beauty to express the silence I found. Delicate deciduous trees sit connected to misty mountain peaks, below the long white cloud—offering a contemporary vision of Aotearoa. This non-classical interpretation of the New Zealand landscape tries to evoke a deeper response from the viewer by stripping out the emotional response that comes from an identifiable location. They invite you to consider how wonderful silence is, offering you a chance to escape from any noise in your everyday life. Viewing these prints reminds you to find those quiet spaces, encouraging you to head into nature for a walk and enjoy your own moments of silence.
Richard's Silence Collection is printed to a limited edition of 45 prints; this edition is inclusive of all print sizes.
Folio Box Sets
Box Sets offer a chance to own all 12 prints from Richard’s Silence Collection. Production of the folio box sets has been limited to 25 box sets, to make allowance for the printing of larger prints within the same limited edition. Box set prints are archival pigment prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art paper, sized at 385 x 329mm.
