LAND | GROUND | FIELD

The field project is an extension of parent projects Land and Ground. It disrupts the perception and identification of landscape by way of creating a set of fractured surfaces, clay detritus from alternative processes, that stand in for their real analogue; the fields of talus and boulders that entice the imagination of climbers, geologists, and the daydreamer who sees more than emptiness among these land(scapes).

Fractured fields, cast out and scattered, of massive dimension to the finest of grain. Born of massive upheaval and subsequent redistribution, erosion and settling of the giant masses from which they came. These talus fields, and their roughly distributed erratics, to many they tell a story. They silently unfold their history to those willing to listen. And to some. We climb them, almost as if to have a simple conversation with time.

The field project opens a dialogue with land and the quickness with which the mind identifies, categorizes, and then produces its imaginary counterpart. The final work exists in the realm of landscape photography in print form. Though it is the selective framing of an in progress clay sculpture resulting in an impression of landscape. Part of ongoing work focused on “landscape” as casually understood, integral to the human condition, and central to both imagined and real perceptions of space.

Project Duration | 30 Days + Post Production | 01.06.2021 - 29.06.2021

Status | Completed | Printed | Exhibited

INPUT

Primary Physical Materials

Stoneware Clay Detritus.

Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations

Landscape Theory, Geology, Perception and Cognition of Landscape.

SYSTEM (aka. Apparatus)

Materials

Stoneware Clay Detritus, lumber, fabric, plastic, hardware

Method

Using the conceptual base of imagined boulder fields as source to create a stratified clay surface; layered, formed and finished with carefully positioned boulders and broadcast variety of varying grained dry clays. Document process and use the photographic “encounter” to complete a pair of image outputs. Exhibit those photographs as landscape photography.

OUTPUT

Apparatus & Sculptural Object | Dismantled, Archived as Sculptural Component for future work.

Photography & Print | Documentation, Exhibition and Limited Purchase.

Artist Proof (AP) | Exhibited (2024)

42nd National Juried Photography Exhibition | Larson Gallery | Yakima, WA.

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Project outputs available for purchase are linked below.