Land Unfolding by Amanda Musick
Land Unfolding examines the natural environment and the ways in which a photograph can function to represent place. The dichotomy of artificial and natural environments is explored through using photographs she made in real landscapes to construct new, illusive vistas and forms.
Landscape collages are created through a process of deconstructing and assembling multiple photographic prints to reconstruct another single view of the original landscape. The landscape piles are made from the deconstructed remains of the collages. The way in which these pile forms float in space portray a sense of loss, void, and skewed reality. The processes of deconstruction and reconstruction employed speaks to our continually changing landscape as well as our attempt to preserve and piece it back together.
Amanda Musick lives and works in Clemson, South Carolina.
To view more of Amanda’s work, please visit her website.
Arches National Park, Utah I
Folly Beach, South Carolina I
Yosemite National Park, California I
Devil’s Backbone Trail, Warriors Path State Park, Kingsport, Tennessee I
Mid-Fork Holston River, Mendota, Virginia I
Big Bend National Park, Texas I
Laurel Fork Falls, Jocassee Gorges, South Carolina I
Big Rock Mountain, Nine Times, South Carolina I
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado I
Arches National Park, Utah II
Big Bend National Park, Texas II
Big Rock Mountain, Nine Times, South Carolina II
Devil’s Backbone Trail, Warriors Path State Park, Kingsport, Tennessee II
Folly Beach, South Carolina II
Laurel Fork Falls, Jocassee Gorges, South Carolina II
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado II
Yosemite National Park, California