$50,000 USD

Artwork Description

Progamming Harmony Touching clear Sky (2024) shows the remote Mojave desert painted in a pattern appropriated from the way that digital cameras, CCTVs or satellites record imagery. This net-like painted pattern made up of sixteen shades of green acts as a filter obscuring our view onto what lays behind. Our earth is dotted with millions of CCTV and surveillance cameras, many of which are located in the most remote regions of the planet allowing live streams from the summit of Mount Everest, the polar regions of Antarctica or remote desert regions; places the vast majority of people will never set foot on. Yet, from the comfort of our own living room, we are able to log into remote sensing networks and see these locations from a distance. Distance allows to disassociate. The same technology which assists us to zoom in on nature, serves to reinforce our lack of connection with – or understanding of – natural realities. Might our relationship with nature similarly reflect a growing detachment from the world?