Digital Landscapes
“Digital Landscapes” is sub-series of a larger body of work entitled "Moving Landscapes." It contains futuristic looking landscape images that could easily be mistaken for AI creations. However, like every image in my practice, all photographs in this series are lens-based and made using a digital or iPhone camera. Little post-processing is done on a computer. I was born before the term digital landscape was ever conceived. There were no digital cameras, smartphones or smart televisions. Film was my first medium. All of the work in this series is made from moving trains, buses or cars.
With “Digital Landscapes” I am exploring the commonalities and simultaneous great divide between digital and analogue, natural and artificial and real versus imagined and created. Moving Landscapes as a whole represents, for me, the struggle between the advancement and growth of the human species and keeping our world, and only home, alive. Our connection to Earth is out of balance.
Photography wasn’t how I first envisioned creating art. I wanted to paint and draw. However, I struggled in art class because I couldn’t make my hands do what I see with my eyes and my heart. Photography gave me a way to create. And digital photography made it even more accessible in terms of cost and my ability to experiment and make art.