Lot 206
Scarlett Hooft Graafland (1973- )
Provenance:
Donated by the artist;
Proceeds to benefit the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Note:
The artist comments: “Sometimes I just get an idea, and if I think it’s really good then I have to make it happen, whatever it takes”.
Her photographs of majestic landscapes – in China, on the salt flats of Bolivia or the Arctic plains of northern Canada, as depicted here with her addition of unexpected elements, the landscape takes on a new dimension where “Two bare legs poke out from under a polar bear skin in the icy cold of the polar circle...”