Digital Edens
Manzanita Lake, Mt Lassen
With fish flopping out of the lake and geese munching around me, I used composite to display the sensory music I felt then. Feet wet and dirty but clear eye'd and exhilerated at the ripples of geology in front of me.
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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.