I've been becoming more comfortable with this new series of mine, which as of now I've dubbed Grounded. I was just able to display it at Boston's First Friday event in the studio where my internship is. Here are a few images that I'm most settled with of the work-in-progress.
all © Rose Tarman
In the art community, a landscape has always been understood as a specific scene in nature, void of human presence and typically are-inspiring in beauty. Why does a traditional landscape have to be perceived as a wide-angle view of a gracious mountainside, endless field or whatever else people like to look at? Why should I care about that scene? I contest that a contemporary landscape can be infinitely more than that, without the traditional understanding of land and space. The places I photograph collectively speak of human connection, abstraction of location and have a level of ambiguity that allows them to be associated with a variety of experiences. They speak to a deeper and more rounded understanding of the spaces I travel through and inhabit through the comparisons and contrasts within their pairings and groupings.
At First Friday:
These are great rose! They incorporate some qualities of your old work but many other great things are happening in them. I'm excited to see how this grows.
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