Matthew Karak’s Golden Hour is a risograph publication and installation, drawn from a series of polaroid and digital photographs captured amidst dusk and nightfall over several months on the Mornington Peninsula.
The images move from recognisable Peninsula experiences: glistening sunset on the ocean, to more intimate details: a residual sun peering through cobwebbed rocky terrain; to saturated, and blurry explosions of colour and light.
The response of the lens to transformative optics during and post-sunset makes for abstracted and evocative images, rich with refracted light, shadow and movement. The imagery is infused with the construction and experience of time. Through printmaking, Matt reinterprets the images, resizing, cropping, stripping colour, amplifying abstraction and inserting ink, presented across multiple forms.
Recently making Mt. Eliza home, Matthew Karak is a café worker by day pursuing his creative work by night. Matt’s practice is formed around collaborations with artists and peers who share aesthetic sensibilities, love for experimentation and image-making, storytelling and friendship.