Chris
Ireland

American Water

This is some new work, still working out the details. My experience with photographs and the frameworks for creating and experiencing them greatly affect the nature of my experiences and memories. As a child, flipping through the stacks of my Dad's postcards and National Geographic magazines opened up my perspective of the world beyond my insular suburban upbringing. The context of my current body of work is a result of my contemplation of landscape through images collected, created, and tagged. Smartphone camera apps, to digital masking and AI tools in software, scanning and printing artifacts, are meant to enhance the images that reflect our experience. But what does it mean to experience anything if we spend so much time making our experiences look hyperreal to ourselves and others? These fractured works do not answer that question in so much as challenge the viewer to reassemble their own perspectives.