SEEN, NOT SEEN

Henry Jones Art Hotel, Packing Room Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, 2024.

SEEN, NOT SEEN (2023) Digital Photograph, Inkjet Print on Canson Photographic Rag 310gsm with Epson Archival Inks behind UV70 Glass. 950mm x 678mm. Photo: Harry Holcombe-James

SELF by Harry Holcombe-James is a time-based experience that provides a technologically mediated meditation of and with the viewer’s reflection, comprised of a priming film and an individualised experience. SELF provides the viewer with an intimate space augmented by technological intervention of emotive sounds and perspective altering lighting with which the viewer can focus on seeing themselves and engaging in a heightened awareness and understanding of themselves. Through light, sound, and reflection SELF simultaneously dissolves the viewer’s sense of their individuality, whilst facilitating deepened senses of identification, recognition and knowing.

Within SELF, viewers engage in a highly focused meditation on their reflection. Seen, Not Seen presents portraits of six viewers of SELF photographed at different times throughout this experience.

229100 (2023) Edition of 5, 678mmx950mm, Archival Photographic Pigment Print on Canson Rag Photographic 310 behind AR70 Glass. Photo by Harry Holcombe-James