Artist Statement
I first considered a special place to me, which in broad terms is nature, but specifically is the mountains. I chose a mountain landscape also because these natural structures seem to be untouchable, unbreakable, and are larger than life. Yet, looking outward on the effects of digitalization of our world today, these beautiful structures are masked by the limitless bounds of photoshopped digital landscape creations online. People seem to be more likely to flip open their laptop and view rendered images than to go outside and experience nature firsthand. People now look at the screens on their phones to take pictures of beautiful landscapes they visit, instead of just enjoying the view without a camera lens.
In my image, I placed a person in the middle of a landscape who doesn’t even acknowledge the nature around her. Instead she stares at a laptop that is swallowing the nature and expelling hazardous digital waste outward. Artificial trees spawn from the waste, replacing the natural image of trees in her mind. Digital waste also drips down the mountains, covering them. This image represents what humans are growing more accustomed to seeing: artificial, rendered copy images of nature that mask the true beauty surrounding them. They have created their own digital world and are now addicted to it.
Links
Mountains
Digital
Digital1
Digital 2
Digital 3
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/HomebuiltPC.jpg
Dig 4
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1875/341/1600/circuit_1.jpg
Dig 5
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Radius_Thunder_IV_GX_1600_1994_1_front.JPG
Dig 6
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Hard_drive-bottom.jpg
Person
https://static.pexels.com/photos/6524/person-woman-hotel-laptop.jpg
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