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In Ranges, I focus on the way digital devices change how the natural landscape is experienced — both when they are being used to navigate, track, record, and share the experience, and the pull they continue to exert on our ways of experiencing and behaving even when pocketed.
Ranges 3797: Momijidani
Ranges 3814: Miyajima
In the series, I overpaint my nature photography — using both physical and digital “paint” — with a chaotic, abstracted visual language referencing network architectures, cloud computing diagrams, and code. Over this background, I layer plexiglass “screens” with abstracted user interfaces along with ethernet and device cables that reference both digital networks and physical trails. These assemblages are then photographed to create the final images.
Ranges 3836: Heart of the Mountains
In 1999, before consumer GPS, I spent months mapping the topography of the Eastern Sierras — finding my way with a compass, a pencil, and the triangulation of peaks. Through this series, I look at what is lost when it becomes harder to lose ourselves in nature.