Artist Statement:
This
project focused on creating compositions that utilized Google Earth and the
conception of maps/mapping. A secondary component was to focus on where we are
(first composition), where we’ve been (second composition) , and we’re we want
to go (third composition). In the first composition I wanted to incorporate
landmarks from the EWU campus as well as Spokane but to make indistinct. I chose the brides downtown, an aerial view
of downtown, as well as a chunk of Eastern’s square. I also created a layered background of
Northern Idaho, which had a lot of texture and seemed to capture a sense of the
outdoors and rural living juxtaposed against the bridges and urban structures.
In the
second composition I wanted to create a ancient looking map so I used pale
colors for the background and pixilated greens and blues that look warn. I also
choose port towns that I had traveled to including Istanbul, NYC, and Venice.
This fit my nautical theme and created an interesting experience of these foreign
places being moved close together.
The third
piece focuses on Northern Idaho and my hopes of getting a cabin on Priest Lake
sometime in the near future. I choose to play with exposure and different hues.
These are found in the squares that focus on a close up of the lake itself. I
chose to pair the natural background with the geometric shapes to try and get
the viewer to e confused.
He final
two compositions involved combining different parts of the world together. In
the 4 piece I wanted to play with size and proportion so I have the ocean in
the background then a stack of Antarctica,
North America, and Africa. I also tried to create interesting colors using the
hue/saturation filter. The last composition combined different aerial views of
deserts from different parts of the world focusing on the textures that
different geographical areas display through their finely crushed rocks. I also
tried to pull clouds from Google Earth and make them look realistic.
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