Alexander Brattell documents the sensation of seeing, fixing moments of heightened awareness in a search for resonance beyond subject matter. His photography is a personal animism preoccupied with shapes of thought and the revelatory nature of peripheral vision. A spirit of place often emerges from the work but at its core is the recognition of an alphabet of sensation that lies beneath the threshold of language. He continues to work in a traditional way making pictures in a darkroom preferring this direct transmission of light, from latent image to final print, as a method of distilling the nature of experience.
