Rosemarie’s Lane, 2018

Archival Digital Inkjet Prints, Video and Photo Objects

Like with animals, the practice of imaging and recreating the natural world has a long and continuing history in every medium, with landscape portrayal encompassing a full array of artistic style and aesthetic.  Immersion and awe are often cited reactions to the experience of viewing or being in nature and trees, in particular, offer abundant metaphor: as sentinel, wisdom, religious connotation, history, longevity, evolutionary history, biological order and genealogy.  Humans’ intimate connection with landscapes (and their representations) and symbiotic relationship with trees through the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen inspired my work in one project to date, while the an impulse to challenge dominant historical representation inspired another.

Rosemarie’s Lane follows the tradition of photographically portraying trees, acknowledging their internal endeavors to persist and allowing for a multidimensional “walk” into and amongst a group of managed native woodland trees in East Hampton, NY. The works in this series experiment with analog and digital photo montage techniques, producing multilayered sculptural composite images of White Pine, Grey Birch and Eastern Red Cedar as they present themselves as open to encounter and prompt interrogation of the human self in relation through the layers of technological intervention.