Karen Landt-Isley is an Australian artist who lives in paradise on Magnetic Island, Australia, whose artistic practice, predominately a fusion art and photography, has been ongoing for 25 years. Her artworks are created through photography, printmaking, and artist’s books reflecting the natural landscape, with her PhD focused on representing Magnetic Island experientially through all the senses with a phenomenological approach. Her artistic pursuit and research practice account for her intimate connection to the world and seeing mind and body as one.

It is precisely because of her search for natural landscapes that Karen traveled to Argentina to tour La Puna and document its wonderful colours. After obtaining these images, Karen came to ´ace together with Elizabeth Haigh, her artistic colleague, to work on them in our Workshop and include them in her creative process in a Production Residency. This residency began with the search to capture their emotions and impressions (in the most personal sense of the word), and concluded with a joint installation in the Dialogue Space of our studio, where the artists expressed their love for nature through a proposal that immersed the public in the vast and enigmatic landscape of La Puna. A predominantly subtle color palette of soft, muted tones, with hints of iron-rich soil browns contrasted with charcoal grays and volcanic rock blacks. The soft white sands of El Peñón and the hard encrusted salt forms of Gos Campo, accompanied by delicate cloud formations throughout the trip, are some of the textures observed and experienced. As Elizabeth worked with needlework, embossing, carborundum, and monotype, Karen created her impression through monotypes on fabric and paper.