Earth as a Planetary Landscape

This work was created during the Amant Siena Residency 2021.

I am interested in how we can think about the environments we know as planetary landscapes, that have risen and fallen over billions of years. Thinking about all the sunsets and sunrises that amounts to, where the geology beneath the stratosphere is changing and life alongside it. Without all of these developments, we would not have the same landscapes and forms of life that we recognise today. If we think about the formation of this landscape against the backdrop of the galaxy and universe, how does it challenge our thinking about the cosmic importance of the lifeforms and environments that we live amongst? How does it reframe our thinking about the insects that move over and in the sediment, and their origins? Does it challenge our human-centric view of the world?

The images below are created using collages of sunsets, sunrises, moonlit landscapes and night sky photographs taken in and around the calanco badlands of Chiusure, Italy during my Amant Siena Residency.

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