When British photographer Odette England was invited to Australia to do an Artitsts Research Residency, she was thrown into the heart of the outback. Odette was sent to live and work at the Arid Zone Research Station of the Imaging the Land Research Institute (ILIRI), the only institute concerned with artistic interpretation of the science of land.
It was here that the project 'As above, So below' was born, a series of shots in which Odette shoots an image directly below her of the ground and directly above of the sky and then brings them together as a double exposure.
The concpet was inspired by the aborginal cultural belief that the heavens and the earth are the foundation of all creatures, including themselves. Land and sky are more than just geographical icons; but mirrors in which they see themselves reflected.
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