Best of Art 20 years
Revisited
No.65 Issue 4/2009
Title
Insights into the Human Soul
The morbid oeuvre from photographer and artist extraordinaire, Dominic Rouse, is not for the faint-hearted. It takes strength to confront the deepest abyss of man’s quintessence
Text
Lunita S V Mendoza
Photos
Brooks Jensen
Brooks Jensen – exceptional artist, visual architect and aural instigator – comments that Dominic Rouse would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual.
“Rouse does not photograph the world,” Jensen muses. “He makes photographs of his mind.”
In Rouse’s The Philosopher’s Tomb, profound issues and challenging questions abound. It is as complex as his passion, uniquely combining photography and fine art. Here, description fails and provocation begins.
Perhaps the more recognised of Rouse’s complex compositions and
