Mediated landscapes

Above image, Abdominal Pain I is from a medical textbook purchased from a library book sale, Computed Tomography with Multiplanar Reconstructions, 1990’s, w 17″ X h 11″ – pages have been rearranged, stacked and glued together based on illustrations, images and text then sanded.    Working from discarded, found commercially printed materials as a jumping off point, these works represent and signify my vision of global mediated landscape.  Materials range from pop-culture, news magazines, to medical and science textbooks.  Choices are based on the quality of printing, paper, color and texture.

Abdominal Pain II, pages from the chapter, Abdominal Sonography, w 18 X h 11.5,  Beginning with a block of glued and frozen layered pages and ground (sanded) down until a story or potential narrative appears to emerge.  The goal is to speak above and below the surface of the high resolution, pristine, sanitary, graphical and typographical surfaces. [banner image is from the diptych, Tommy Flight, from a Dutch product catalog found on a KLM flight from Rotterdam to Baltimore, 2009 – the piece was created summer, 2015.]

Blind Faith, w 13″ X h 8″, pages from Scientology catalog, sent to the house each month.

Tommy Flight River, w 27″ X h 11.5″, diptych Dutch catalog, split in half, approximately 10 pages each.

Mass Transit, diptych, w 29″ X h 42″.  The bottom surface layer is a hybrid cyanotype and vandyke imaging (non-silver photography), then approximately 10-15 pages from Vanity Fair are glued, ground down with a variety of hand sanders and resurfaced with torn versions of the collage and Décollage techniques. 

Laughing Vanity, w 17″ X 8.5″ pages from Vanity Fair.

Cyan I, (working title), w 27.5 X h 20″ cyanotype, medical textbook and fashion magazine layers manipulating by using a hand sander to reveal different layers. 2015

Cyan II, (working title),w 27.5 X h 20″ cyanotype, medical textbook and fashion magazine layers manipulating by using a hand sander to reveal different layers. 2015

Cyan III, (working title),w 27.5 X h 20″ cyanotype, medical textbook and fashion magazine layers manipulating by using a hand sander to reveal different layers. 2015