Voyager (2023)

Voyager tells a story that blurs the lines between the real and the unreal through the subconscious search for individual liberty. Using the pictorial presence of her grandfather; belonging, identity and memory are explored as Hunt creates a fictitious connection through a romanticised, mythlike depiction of a close yet distant, unreachable figure. Feeding her own identity into this fabricated character, a link is drawn between their mutual connection with the open-ended aura of the sea.

Historical and alternative photographic processes and the incorporation of visual material from a family kept archive strengthen this link, creating an intimacy and a physicality to the constructed relationship. Through the early image-making process of anthotype printing, sunlight and a coastal vegetation are used to produce impermanent prints which hold a ghostly, veiled presence and are destined to fade with time. Bladderwrack seaweed is used within the development process of film, creating ethereal imagery suggestive of a distant dream based upon memory.