Yosemite: Seeking Sublime
Photographs and 3D Printed Landscapes by Edward Bateman
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Awe-inspiring, enigmatic, and alluring, Bateman's distinctive prints, created by photographing 3D models, are thoroughly contemporary in their concept and methodology. Produced during the ongoing pandemic and with limited possibility of travel, Bateman crafted the work using geographical data and a 3D printer. The artist's unique process yields captivating, abstract images depicting plastic filaments that explore the concept of the sublime through representations of the majestic landscapes of Yosemite National Park.
"Mountains and nature have long been places of peace and refuge. During this pandemic, due to lockdown and
quarantine, they have been denied to us. There are few emotions about places for which adequate single words exist. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the
word sublime arose to describe the feelings that the natural world can evoke.
On my kitchen table, I have been photographing the grandeur of Yosemite National Park, long immortalized by photographers from Carleton Watkins to Ansel Adams. Using geographical data from the internet, I used my 3D printer to try to capture something of the sublime in bits of plastic. With clouds from a small fog machine, I create atmospheric perspective.
This will have to do until we are once again allowed to travel freely. Until that time, I will continue to explore this imaginary landscape."—Edward Bateman
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photo-eye Gallery, 1300 Rufina Circle, A3, Santa Fe, NM 87507.
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Previous Exhibition:
Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective. Mark Klett.
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