Overlooked

These photo landscapes, all derived from satellite imagery, show unexpected beauty in urban settings often dismissed as eyesores. Parking lots, for instance, usually create empty and unsightly peripheries around downtown high-rise districts. Seen from above and rearranged with Photoshop, the lots in One Dozen (2023) form a beautiful urban mosaic instead.

Many of my aerial landscapes present urban worksites filled with factories, warehouses, and construction sites. Others show vast residential communities where individual homes are similar if not identical in design. Streets and buildings are rearranged with Photoshop to create entirely new landscapes according to my own vision, fantasy, or whim.

Departing from convention, many of my landscapes are overlaid with enlarged and carefully camouflaged hand tools that are initially difficult to see. Depending on how they are viewed, the oversized tools either emerge from or disappear into the aerial landscapes below. The longer we look, the more the imagery morphs, the boundaries blur, and our familiar orientation slips away.