- landscape
- Technological advances in the production of the photographic medium and its manipulation reinforce our expectations of an existence where our sentimentality is embodied in mediated reality. Landscapes occupy integral and ubiquitous spaces within traditional and contemporary photography, due to the medium’s undeniable ability to mesmerize in timeless perfection a simultaneous sense of place, dislocation, and expanse. To illustrate the power of photography’s visual language and its role in staging and shaping contemporary symbolism, I create memory landscapes – a fictional world where remembering imagery in and through photography form a dual indeterminacy of both form and content. Here the frame of reference lies within the interrogation of the medium itself. Compelled by light, I pan and scan and extract segments from my previous photos, transforming them into new abstractions.
The ‘camera’ draws toward particular places within previous original works to the point that we begin to see ‘inside’ a new space hidden within the source material.
The ensuing photoscapes develop into breathtaking vistas, awe-inspiring panoramas, and majestic, untouched territories, suggesting apocalypse and utopia. What transcends are parcels of photography-sourced realities, abstractions that, in and of themselves, remind us there exists an intimacy and otherness to the world and everything on it.
Italics taken from an unpublished essay by Jeremy Glazier entitled, “The Presence of the Original: Photoscopy, Physics and the Recent Work of Robert Metzger”.
