Environmental Melancholia

"Environmental Melancholia: Postcards from the Past.33"
Archival pigment print, rice paper, photo corners
Unique; three limited editions available
Inspired by the seductive beauty of the Hudson River School painters, the photographs of this series, Environmental Melancholia, are, at first glance, pictorial and idyllic. I disrupt - through color shifts, rips, attaching and connecting photographic components with Washi tape and photo corners - the expectation of landscape as continuing “as usual” to interrupt complacency. These additional elements transform the photograph into a layered material object, expanding traditional landscape photographs in form and content.