Landscape re-imagined


In Landscapes Reimagined, I use a “lens-less” camera that mimics the light transmission through an eye from the cornea to the retina on a bright, sunny day. I built this apparatus to shoot landscapes with technical assistance from an ocular surgeon. This “lens-less” photographic technique breaks photography down to its simplest form – the capture of light.  





The resulting images are ambiguous shapes and colors, which lack any discernible linear and geometric elements normally present in nature. Linear and geometric patterns typically help the mind to focus and identify familiar objects. Their absence in this work creates a seemingly nebulous image until I reintroduce the missing forms through sculpture. The sculptural elements in the work are based upon my own visual reading of the site when I took the original images. Once these sculptural elements have been re-applied, the familiar identifiers and boundaries are re-established.





This work is an exploration of the ways that our eyes function in close relationship with our brain, and how this symbiotic relationship determines the way we process and see images. The work also examines the ways that resulting images can vary significantly if we alter or remove any part of the visual “data” in a landscape.