Disregarded Landscapes

Here are some of the images that i presented for my Thesis Project Proposal. My Project is titled Disregarded Landscapes. Here is the abstract that i presented with the project to give an idea of what the project is about.

A lot of my life I was unable to see textures clearly and I have become fascinated with textures and small-scale things since getting glasses. Also, I have very much come to miss landscapes and the outdoors since being in San Francisco. I feel that the city abstracts the idea of wilderness and tries to recreate it with parks. Although to me this seems unnatural, and something I don’t enjoy as much as the real wooded areas. When I am walking through the city I look for the landscape, within the city, that I have come to miss. Both of these are reasons behind my images. I have combined the two and now search for microscopic landscapes within the city. I find areas that are pleasing to me, and usually have a lot of decay and texture and I am photographing them with the intentions of creating a landscape. I am photographing the project with a Canon EOS 1 and slide film. I am using a 100mm macro lens with the aperture at f2.8. The images will be very ambiguous and open for interpretation. The images are meant to become something personal to the viewer, to remind the viewer of a familiar area. The 16-20 images will be 24” x 36” flush mounted on black gator board. The images will be large and over-powering and have the dichotomy of being very small-scale objects pushed to something that is so large and overwhelming.

Disregarded Landscapes