In the midst of car dealer row & six lanes of traffic on Odana Road in Madison, this #Wisconsin:
Archive for the ‘phonography’ Category
Posted in ecology, landscape, Madison, phonography, roadtrip, Summer, Topography, tagged #archaic #nature #foundart #wilderness #hiking #treehugger #wisconsin #woodland # deepecology on August 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
In Everyone’s Backyard
Posted in Art, collage, influences, landscape, phonography, roadside, rural industrial, Topography, Travel, tagged documentary, landscape, man-altered, photography landscape nature Wisconsin, rural, rural industrial, topography, Wisconsin on June 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Evening walk down Airport Road, a residential, light industrial, verge of Wisconsin River wetlands mixed use landscape. Wilderness, industry and family homes collide in a kind of rural, blue collar pastoral. Which vista is sublime, which ridiculous? My beautiful cement factory, illuminated like a Byzantine icon. Where do we even begin to draw the distinction, when everywhere is altered and nowhere pristine, not even Yosemite Valley.
Because I see it everyday even the factory parking lot has gained meaning; for me and also for all who have worked/ work there- does our constant regard lend it an aesthetic also?I’m becoming obsessive about these kind of visual questions. Maybe it’s not healthy 😉
These flat shots are all preliminary study done with a Samsung G4 phone, of subjects I’ll revisit to build out with the DSLR. Under the influence: Reframing the New Topographics