LANDINGS is back for 2025, and we are taking over the @falmouthphotographyonline Instagram account. Landings is a collective of research clusters: Habitats, Practices of Care, Centres and Networks and Im/material; each of which is a collaboration of artists who share a cohesive methodology of visually communicating the world in which we live.
Today we introduce the work of Habitats artists Phil Roeder and Dan May.
Phil Roeder
Phil Roeder’s “Bottom of the Driftless” is a journey home in search of something undiscovered. When his mother-in-law passed away, Phil and his wife purchased the farmhouse where she resided, and which has been in the same family for more than 150 years. Perched at the southern edge of the Driftless, a unique but little-known area of the American Midwest, this work uses the farmhouse as a locus in considering the changing economics, culture, and politics of the region. Phil’s long-term project is an exploration of place, memory, and permanence – an attempt to see anew a farmhouse that has stood for generations, bound to both family and the land.
Dan May
Dan May: “Natura deficit, fortuna mutatur, deus omnia cernit.” Nature fails us, fortune changes, a god beholds all things from on high. In the time of Hadrian man stood alone: The Roman gods were all but gone, and Christianity not yet come, there was what seemed a unique moment. This project is a poem (or a portrait maybe…) connecting the deep echoes of history with our own pressing uncertainties. It explores how the cycles of human endeavour and personal acts performed in solitude inform our own search for identity in a time of shifting alliances.
