Digital Edens
Regrowth
Hiking to Bumpass Hell in Mt Lassen Ntl. Park we saw how the Dixie fire struggled to claim every tree but the durable landscape at 9000 feet endures.
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Landscapes for me reflect a mythical connection to an Earthly place and time. Landscapes weave sensual experiences that combine the visual experience with auditory, olfactory and tactile memories. Using digital layering I make composite images that represent the complexity of senses that build a landscape memory. On a global scale, digital photography has reduced much imagery to visual noise and promotes impulsive consumption of photos while data storage is actively consuming the earth's resources. With my work I don’t seek to hide the digital impact on everything in our current reality I seek to absorb it into the natural processes that create a landscape. Using strategic patterns of duplication and erosion I can synthesize a new connection to a landscape with simple snapshots from my iPhone camera, but I am able to create a profound reality that despite the digital consumption of our world, the landscape still wins.