Homemade Landscape Series
Sizes and Mediums Vary:
Archival Pigment Prints on Paper, Canvas, and Dibond: 7" x 12" to 72"x 96"
Lightboxes: 4" x 4"
Video Artworks
Instagram Project
For the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant, the feeling of the sublime arose from overcoming the fear of one’s inability to grasp the magnitude of nature. Inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf, the macro-photography and video series offers a more feminine take on the sublime: the feeling of awe that arises when one pauses in the immeasurableness of the intimate. Composed entirely in the camera lens, the scenes are of ordinary moments and objects. When viewed up close, these intimate moments spark the feeling of the sublime as it occurs as a time-out-of-time experience in everyday life.
The series is also a play on women's relationships to landscape and the sublime at different times: the historically domestic-bound woman who does not have 'permission' to travel and explore the wonders of the world, the women in a dystopian future where the constructions of Man have taken over and the natural landscape is only a memory, and the playful view of a young girl today who imagines new worlds and sees excitement in the mundane. The artworks are posted on Instagram and geo-tagged as an other “sublime” location, treating the social media platform as both an art medium and subject.
