Landsat imagery, custom software, paper

14" x 23" each

2016

Satellite photographs processed through custom software which separates the red, green and blue color channels and discretizes the pixels. The emergent images are rendered, pixel by pixel, on paper by hand with a sharp instrument.

These works began as an exploration into our preoccupation of gathering and storing information about our world, each iteration engendering new knowledge and relevancy. Interested in how this vast archive informs our perceptions, I grabbed screenshots from Landsat and Google Earth and processed them through custom software. The software separates the red, green and blue color channels of the image and replaces the comprising individual pixels with their representative alphabet letter, R, G or B. Further manipulations emphasize the content and terrain. I pushed the process further, taking the emergent discretized array of pixels and rendering each one by hand on paper with a sharp instrument. The process is labor intensive and necessitates a meditative, systematic approach. The images are produced by the pinnacle of human ingenuity and technological advance, and finally returned to the simple and primitive act of mark making on a surface.