Ian Kemp, Dunes (Art (2018))

Over the last two years I have been intrigued by ideas surrounding the transience of human life. Particularly how short human life appears when compared with nature itself or the vast continuum of human existence. So when I visited the Sahara Desert at Merzouga in Morocco in October the sand dunes became a metaphor for this. I shot these images one evening and the next morning at sunrise. Overnight there were changes to the dunes. Animal tracks and human footsteps were traced on the sand that weren't there the night before. I could envision how when the winds blew the dunes would morph into other shapes and patterns. And even so, the grasses would continue to cling to the earth, buildings would resist and remnants buried in the sands would be revealed. For me these fine art images suggest the changing patterns of human life and human endeavour. They are much more than photographs of dunes.

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