Alright, up to the present. I am currently knee deep in my thesis work and diving in head first. Basics, I am creating fabricated images, some obvious, some harder to tell but in the end its noticeable, but in the end I want to be "found out." The works all depict different possibilities for real estate, some past, some present and some future ideas about where real estate could be going and what could happen to the wilderness of the country. I start with creating images through the use of untouched landscapes (wilderness) and adding in architectural renderings, colored depictions of house designs, to represent the possible to the viewer. Now, I have expanded the series into adding in real structures from urban settings, houses, apartments, office buildings, gas stations, metro stops, and have been adding those into wilderness images and into historical American landscape photographs.
The full series with some installation elements is meant to have the viewer being to question or at least try to justify, our societies continued expansion into the wilderness and surrounding landscapes, which adds to the damage we have already done. Overall, the images are trying to motivate the viewer to question our predicament and begin to look for alternatives, like rebuilding on land that has become rundown, or building up instead of out, all aspects of smart growth.
Below is a sampling of the first images created in this series, I will add more selections as I continue working on the project.
