Digital Landscape

Artist Statement

            With this project, I really wanted to explore perspective. Not only physical visual perspective, as in one point or two point perspective, but also as in the human perspective or point of view. When people walk through their everyday lives they are accosted by thousands of images, ideas and thoughts based on what is around them. Most of those thousands of images we have already seen thousands of times. People can walk through their daily routine without ever noticing the things around them, simply because to them those images are second nature to their lives. But what if those people were confronted with those images that they take for granted? What if those images were thrown into their faces in a blatant and purposeful manner so that they were forced to look at them, examine them and create an opinion on what they saw? It is possible then that people would view these images in a different way, perhaps gaining an appreciation of what they pass by on an everyday basis.

            With the above as my main goal there are a few details of the project that I would like to explore. I would like to use my own imagery for the project; a combination of imagery created in photoshop or illustrator and photographs. I will probably use photos from around campus in an attempt to create a personal connection with my work, and apply the above ideas to my own everyday life. I also want the final product to create the appearance of a pathway or at least have a clear destination. I will probably use one point perspective to accomplish this in one way or another. Colors in the final will be vibrant in order to capture that essence of the everyday that I feel is probably missing from most people’s lives. I really want this print to ask more questions and give less answers, because it is supposed to be about the possibilities of our paths rather than the concrete evidence of our paths. This landscape will only be able to exist in the digital world, but it will be an abstract depiction of our real world that we experience every day.