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Once again
the landscape image is being used to sublimate human awe before Nature;
a comfortable topography is promised through the windscreen of the advertised
automobile.
Conducting you off-road, unscathed through the wilderness, such a vehicle offers the soporific horizon of a virtual future - constantly becoming. Only in the rear-view mirror, at the already-gone vanishing-point of your tire-tracks, is there evidence of finitude. The series Autoscapes exploits the sublime view of early landscape photography, and an associated contemporary nostalgia, to redeem images of the natural environment from the function usually assigned to it by advertisers - as a mere backdrop for that supreme commodity, the automobile. The Rotunda* exhibition space has more Autoscapes... (*needs Quicktime).
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| from Autoscapes (1994 -) sepia-toned silver-print, 60 x 42 inches |