Environmental Melancholia - Statement
"Environmental Melancholia: Postcards from the Past.30"
Pigment print on Moab Entrada Rag Natural 300 paper, rice paper, archival photo corners
Unique; Three editions available
Environmental Melancholia
I connect two distinct landscapes creating new global environments encouraging collective mobilization and communal stewardship over our natural world. Postcards from the past reference souvenirs gathered in a scrapbook - our natural world reduced to only nostalgic remembrances. I envision a time when opportunistic national borders dissolve.
Inspired by the seductive beauty of the Hudson River School painters, the photographs 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 landscapes 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.