Terra Nullius
SERIES: AMERICAN SUBLIME, It's not what it seems, 2020.
80 x 100 cm. Edition 2/3.
Archival pigment print on Ilford Smooth Gloss paper, from an original 4 x 5 inch color negative sheet film, photographed with a 19th-century plate camera. Edition size 3 + 2AP
Terra Nullius or "Empty Land"- the term used by settlers to justify annexing territory without any negotiation, omitting histories of outright thefts of land through force, blackmail and trickery" Source: Indigenous Lands/Settler Landscapes: Art Histories Out of Joint." Ruth Philips, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015
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Betsy is an artist working with a camera. Examining her work from that perspective is essential. Her photographic, yet dissonant images carry distinctly the qualities of the lens and camera housing as if it were a theater for the viewer. The trees and landscapes, for which she has such affection, branch out to the edges of the film as if projected on the wall like a camera obscura. Her photographs are an invitation to take a ride in her nineteenth-century field camera and experience the magical sublime of nature as perceived by the artist. Betsy has experimented with analog film and traveled the world for more than thirty-years in search of her extraordinary subjects and processes.