Hinterland

An editorial featured in Rebel Magazine & All Within Magazine

‘An area lying beyond what is visible or known.’

This editorial is inspired by Ancient Greek Philosopher Plato and his ‘Allegory of the cave’. 

The story describes prisoners held captive in a cave. Their only perception of the world is through shadowy projections on the cave wall . Plato uses the cave as a symbolic representation of how human beings live in the world, contrasting reality with our interpretation of it. 

Similarly Hinterland explores the grey area between the two worlds in the story; portraying a space neither inside or outside the cave, but somewhere in between. Playing with ideas of escapism and timelessness, by playing with abstractions of natural forms, shadows, reflections and varying transparencies, Hinterland ultimately represents the notion of  being somewhere yet nowhere.