Unseen Forces: A Visual Dialogue with the Landscape
The natural forces that shape our planet—erosion, tectonic shifts, glacial movements—have long fascinated both scientists and artists alike. In art history, landscape painters such as J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, and the Hudson River School, artists sought to capture the power, mystery, and grandeur of the natural world. Turner’s atmospheric storms, Friedrich’s meditative vastness, and the sweeping vistas of 19th-century American painters all reflect an enduring human attempt to comprehend nature’s overwhelming scale and energy.
My work follows in this tradition but through a contemporary lens—exploring geology not just as scenery but as a dynamic force, a living archive of transformation. I am drawn to the unseen forces beneath the surface, the slow violence of erosion, the tension between stability and upheaval. In my practice, I think about visualizing these processes, a dialogue between art and earth sciences.
By examining the geological framework of landscapes, I engage with the same awe and reverence that fuelled generations of artists with a contemporary abstract approach using material experimentation and a deeper inquiry into time itself, humbly translating Earth's restless movements into a visual language that reflects uses and abuses and its ongoing metamorphosis, climate crisis, and my own place here.
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