Wake

Wake is a series of paintings that explores how we imagine and respond to the contemporary landscape. Working with Romantic elements such as the infinite and sublime, I situate the viewer within a fragmented panorama where the landscape is on the edge of collapse and upheaval. The icy landscape lacks human markings or other indicators of scale, as a result, we are doubtful we belong in these places and the potentiality of landscape is diminished by our exclusion. As we struggle to position ourselves in this collapsing space we face a disappointing realization- there is no conclusive image, no grand answer in the landscape. In the end, I ask viewers to question the potential of landscape, their navigation of landscape images and to confront the sense of loss that results from encountering this unstable, fractured scene.