BY: KAILEE MANDEL
With this series I wanted to juxtapose views of nature in order to de-familiarize the landscape from its literal state. Aerial images demand the viewer’s attention to the terrain and details of the landscape, showing an abstraction unavailable at the regular magnification of daily perspective.
Alaska’s southern landscape is under the constant bombardment of the sea, the salt-water erosion cutting into the shoreline leaving beautiful patterns on the land’s surface.
Using the same bird’s eye perspective found in my aerial photography, I created a parallel through microscopic landscapes of dried saltwater to compare the similarity of shape and texture between micro and macro levels of magnification.
These images draw a bridge for the viewer in terms of similarity, but also remind the viewer that even that which is small and seemingly insignificant can have a profound impact on larger structures.
