“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it” (Salvador Dali in Barker 2017:36)
Bibliography:
Barker, M. (2017), Research Notes Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals, London: Overlapse
https://www.widewalls.ch/staged-photography/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins
Showing the things we cannot see, an interview with Duane Michals
^originally from issue #2 of Buffalo Zine.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/minimalism
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/conceptual-art
“I collect this seemingly awful rubbish and I intentionally make it visually beautiful so the viewer is drawn in to see beauty in the image. When they read what it is about, they get the hard-hitting stab in the back of what it represents.” – speaking to BBC news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-humber-46222090/hull-artist-makes-pictures-from-waste-washed-up-on-beaches
“because we are not beyond putting an end to the problem – but we are beyond salvaging what is already out there”. – taken from the beyond drifting sketchbook
https://theconversation.com/how-photography-evolved-from-science-to-art-37146
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
Artful Swirls of Plastic Marine Debris Documented in Images by Photographer Mandy Barker
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/27/keith-arnatt-photography-exhibition-spruth-magers-absence-of-the-artist