| I am interested in the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary. I photograph, draw, or film tableaus made of common materials and frame them in a way which references vast scales. I want to create images that are familiar and unfamiliar, grand and absurd, serious and comedic. My last few photographic series have been landscapes made out of everyday materials. Nought Nowhere Was Never Reached was a large-scale photo of an asteroid scene. For that piece, I photographed potatoes and arranged them within a grand landscape. Seascapes is a series of digital prints made by photographing tinfoil. | 
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Inga Dorosz
Courtesy of the artist.I am interested in the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary. I photograph, draw, or film tableaus made of common materials and frame them in a way which references vast scales. I want to create images that are familiar and unfamiliar, grand and absurd, serious and comedic.
My last few photographic series have been landscapes made out of everyday materials. Nought Nowhere Was Never Reached was a large-scale photo of an asteroid scene. For that piece, I photographed potatoes and arranged them within a grand landscape.
Seascapes is a series of digital prints made by photographing tinfoil. I arranged pieces of tinfoil in the studio and lit them using various lighting methods. They are photographed using a variety of cameras, from digital to film. The seascape series has several influences. First, the Seascapes of Hiroshi Sugimoto: I love the formal quality of his work and it was the catalyst for my photos. There is a quality of light in Sugimoto’s work that is phenomenal. I wanted to be limited by the utilized materials—tinfoil, a simple reflective material, and a few bulbs—to see if I could capture a more sophisticated range of light.
My second influence springs from the authors Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville. Both Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville have written about the beauty of the ocean and its relationship with people. The following is one of my favorite quotes from Moby Dick, a book I referenced while working on this project:
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.”
My third influence comes from Peter Fishli and David Weiss. They created a whole other universe out of the ordinary and everyday.
