SIGHT UNSEEN
Though the process of image creation in the camera may be comparable to our eyes, the photographic process stops in similarity as the viewer’s own mind interprets the captured scene like any other stimulus that lay before it. Through the photograph, we are viewing reflections of stimuli that once existed, but are now distorted by two-dimensionality, memorialized time, and lost-context.
The image lives as a true hallucination of the mind where the soul of the landscape is captured, but its material, emotion, and place in space is opened to new contextual processing.
To examine the eye’s interpretation of imagery, I incorporated images ranging from natural forms of ambiguous figures, conflicting light, and shadow where nondescript lines conflict with object discrimination beside its simulacra.
Moreover, I use prints, measurement and technological displays to explore the relationship between the photograph and mind, the deceptive nature of photography, and the artificiality of each medium where every photograph must exist.
Bristlecone Pine Forest on LCD