Lighthouse from Bluff shows a small bay with waves washing ashore. The image is out of focus and the sky behind the sea is grey and overcast.
The glitchy popping sound on the otherwise empty audio soundtrack combines with the out-of-focus image to undercut the image of the oceanic sublime, and critique the ability of film to render it with any fidelity.
Lighthouse from Bluff (2006)
Other works by Miranda Parkes
Miranda Parkes
Boob Reflection (2011)
A chest hangs neatly from a wooden fence on the other side of a window.
Miranda Parkes
Hedge Southland (2006)
A visual joke, a sleight of hand, a sunset appears and disappears.
Miranda Parkes
Lake Pūkaki (2007)
The reflection and distortion of light and brief moments when our vision is disrupted.
Miranda Parkes
Light on bouquet (2009)
The discarded plastic wrapping for a bouquet of flowers and light flickering along its edge.