Overlooked - continued
These satellite images of residential communities were rendered almost unrecognizable with Photoshop, transforming them into abstract forms and patterns instead. The neighborhoods were then overlaid with enlarged and carefully camouflaged hand saws or C clamps. Cycling from one layer to another, the eye alternates between barely recognizable residential buildings and barely perceptible hand tools once used to make them.
Whereas camouflage normally protects against detection, I use it instead to engage the eye, to fool it, perplex it, even tease it -- in short, to encourage viewers to look more carefully at the art. Intentionally blurring boundaries between satellite photography and abstract art, these prints invite us to reimagine how we see landscapes as an art form.
Hand Saws 1 (2024)
Hand Saws 2 (2024)
Hand Saws 3 (2024)
Hand Saws 4 (2024)
Hand Saws (2024) 2 x 2 quadrant
C Clamps (2024)
© Tom Crawford