Soaked in color and deliberate in its staging, Nick Meek’s aesthetic is a key to unlocking the collective psyche.Accessed through imagination and leading to a fiction of reality, this collective psyche is the space where meanings that might have never been there in the first place are created, opening to a profound questioning of the effects of memory in the way we perceive not only what surrounds us, but also ourselves.The book gathers 39 hazy and hyperreal images of landscapes across the United States, with only a few exceptions in France and Japan. Printed in spreads allowing the reader to immerse themselves in the gaze of the photographer, the photographs become landscape in itself. Far from being descriptive, they tear the surface of what we believe the places ought to be, their own representation, delving into the space for re-imagining.The tension that arises is the dialectic between past and present, proximity and distance, real and unreal, a constant sway, like a murmur, latent, under the surface that is inherently bittersweet.
