This is a series of generally abstract compositions I made using NASA's free World Wind software and the aerial photography of the United States Geological Survey.
You may, as always, click on the thumbnails to the left to see the pictures. Further concerns addressed below.
Is it photography?
Yes and no. These images are made up of photographs, but I didn't take them.Are you really taking credit for this crap?
Sure, if you'll give it to me. Put it this way: the USGS didn't put any creativity into their photomosaic of the United States. But I approached it as a vast compositional playground of natural and synthetic forms, and I arranged these images creatively.Grant- and/or fellowship-seeking statement follows. It's sincere only if it'll get me money.
"I focused primarily on the interplay between natural and synthetic landforms, as well as the overarching synthetic abstractions imposed by the variegated exposure framework of the USGS mosaic. This interplay presents an ineluctable tension between the forces of nature and man, ultimately left unresolved. In the actual physical reality portrayed on the ground, one sees man, for all his power to shape his environment, still confined and at times overwhelmed by it. Yet this apparent stalemate is broken by man's conquest of the heavens, and his consequent power to define the earth itself, as exemplified by the abstract overlay of the photomosaic grid."Whoa, jeez, where am I? What just happened? Er, anyway. Even if this isn't strictly "photography," and I can't take any credit, these images are at least fun to look at. Enjoy.