THE TOPOGRAPHICAL LENS

Topographical maps offer a sort of specificity that shapes the way we see the land around us.  Mountains are mountains, raised and ridged masses emerging from flat expanses.  But as the grid responds to the land, it subtly shifts, acknowledging each ridge, each mountain, as its own.  

 

Valley

The Topographical Lens

2016

BRONZE

From the sky, the landscape is reconfigured and flattened.  Islands and lakes become graphic elements, rivers are indicated through a quivering line.  

 

Photo | Rob Chron