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Imaginary Landscape — Brown

Imaginary Landscape — Brown
“Imaginary Landscape — Brown” — An imaginary landscape based on materials from the desert.

This imaginary landscape — an image produced by manipulating photographic materials — riffs on the subject of playa mud. Here the semi-circular forms in the lower 2/3 of the frame interested me, obviously along with the shapes and textures of the dried mud.

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Imaginary Landscape — A Boundary

Imaginary Landscape — A Boundary
“Imaginary Landscape — A Boundary” — An imaginary desert landscape.

What are we seeing here? I don’t want to say too much, since I’d rather than you mostly respond to what it appears to be. The image is derived from a desert “intimate landscape” — a photograph encompassing a very small portion of the landscape. Perhaps you can see the brighter areas on the right as being related to stars or galaxies, and the jagged lines might suggest electricity. It is up to you!

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Playa and Plants — Imaginary Landscape

Playa and Plants — Imaginary Landscape
“Playa and Plants — Imaginary Landscape” — An imaginary desert landscape with dry mud and spring plants.

This is another of the “imaginary landscape” photographs. They all begin with the actual landscape, but then I treat the images freely, modifying them in a variety of ways, though always with the the original source material at least somewhat identifiable.

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Imaginary Landscape — Blue Sand

Imaginary Landscape — Blue Sand
“Imaginary Landscape — Blue Sand” — An imaginary landscape of blue sand.

My “imaginary landscape” photographs are based on actual photographs of landscape subjects that are modified and re-purposed in ways that hake to attempt at literal portrayal of actual landscapes. In these images I take the landscape-based materials and explore what else they can be.

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