Showing posts with label Layering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Layering. Show all posts

10.14.2011

Of Landscape

Thinking today about time, place, image and reality. With all that we know now about place, time and our perceptions of that, how would I create a landscape that could be true to that? I mean, if I were to try not to create a monocular view of the world, a modernist singular view, then what would that look like? I think it must be multi layered; at least with multiple quantities considered. Take, for instance the traditional norms of the western landscape. Broad , majestic vistas, beautiful light, important objects (buildings, flowers, trees, fields... etc.) are captured in a way that has become over time canonistic. This cannon is a singular view locked into a representation from a singular translator, moved by emotion, light, and lore of place. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, except I think that there is so much more about that place that is depicted, on so many micro and macro levels. I should make an attempt to acknowledge those bits of information.
On my journey, I encounter micro and macro realities, the strange anomalies of sub-atomic particles, realism, idealism, mapping, theories of existence, emotion/perception, hidden realities, multi-dimensional reality,  pluralism, fractals, and I react to these things in my current work to create a landscape that is a reaction and dialog with these realities of contemporary existence.