Statement - Merged Landscapes: New Lands
Inspiration for this series comes from my fascination with early stereoscopic image cards. Horizontal in format, two images appear side by side, merged in the center. Both images, captured from slightly different angles are a bit misaligned, suggesting a glitch in time: a moment split, repeated and reassembled.
In my work, I echo the stereoscopic format by merging two landscapes into a single, continuous image. Most of the landscapes are distant from one another on the globe, and separated by time. As memory itself is unstable, fragmented and reassembled into something both familiar and unreliable, so too are the landscapes.
Pairs may share some affinity, perhaps in form, topography or mood. Some may be analogs to one another, merged back to back as if in mirror image. The seam between them is not intentionally concealed, but functions as a site of tension and exchange.
Placed together, they enter into a conversation. A visual dialogue between shapes and shadows that suggests a new and hybrid land, neither wholly real or entirely imaged; an alternate history to be discovered.