Inspired by the concept of rewilding of George Monbiot, a writer and environmentalist (Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life, 2013), Witho Worms had dedicated his journey along the arctic coastline of Norway in the summer of 2016 to ‘rewilding himself’. After having photographed man-made landscapes for fifteen years, for the series 'When You Look at a Landscape…' he immersed himself in a natural environment: untouched, wild and unpredictable. The primeval, uninhabited panoramas of sea, glacier and mountain continue Worms’ fascination with the interplay between nature, vision and the camera. The images engage the infinitude of landscape with the limits of a frame, shaped by the artist and the technical apparatus itself.
The series 'When You Look at a Landscape…' comprises of sixteen full-frame 30x50 cm contact prints in an edition of three. The detailed large-format views are rendered in three layers of carbon tissue made with matt Bone Black pigment (the first two layers) and glossy Japanese Sumi ink (the third layer). After transferring the printed image on a final support paper, the order of the 3 image layers reverses. The two ‘bone black’ image layers are on top of a shiny Sumi ink layer showing every shade of black in the masked area’s.