ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES is a gridded series of contact prints from digital negatives extracted from industry proofs of reality dating television sets. These images, when amassed, suggest the plastic and artificial rendering of modern love through the consumer gaze, utilizing the guise of love and aesthetics for capital gain. ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES exists at the intersection of digital reality and fantasy - slippage mediated through a series of screens. Unblinking, predatory eyes casted from a dark room by bluelight watch through cameras hidden between plastic ferns. They are waiting. The photographs are clinically still but ruptured through the abundance of material landmarks. Constructed of single-use plastic and adorned with lifeless ivy and miles of string lights, these sets are torn down and discarded as quickly as they were built. The fleeting moments of these cheap digital realities are sharply contrasted by the slow, analog rendering of the digital negatives in the printing process - disposable environments embalmed by the contact print.

 

ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES utilizes the crop as a means of curating these highly-manicured, in-between spaces which remain activated and commanding, despite the absence of their inhabitants. The chrome heart beckons–come closer. The leering neon sign whispers hollow intimacies: Wish You Were Here . . .