Averaged Landscapes
A cycle or a serie of processed landscapes done while on a trip to Nida, Lithuania in summer 2006.
Idea of homogenization or blendedness came as a side effect on contemplation about processed food. Specifically, thinking about the baby food. It is a first taste of the "real world" outside mother's milk for most of new born humans, born in average civilized circumstances. As such it is a strange introduction to the world which is palatetively preceived as a whole one, not as container of parts. Individual parts such as potatoes or carrots or brocolli lose their individual identity and form a blended, averaged taste experience. Individual parts lose their shape, identity and their stories. Blended heroes (vegetables in case of baby food) narrate oneness, a "one", but what one is it?
A brocotatoe? One pointing at no-one? Marinistic landscapes have a deep romantic tradition, depicted in a state of emotional arousal, tension or conflict and fully loaded with a narative charge. Taking a full optical information possesed by such a landscape and thoroughly blending it, we clean up perception from representations and can enjoy a clear and clean aesthetic transaction. Sublime shall not be lost!
Averaged Landscape Nr.: 82,
Contents: 49,4441% sky, 0,6022% sea, 06716% pine forest, 49,2821% dunes.
Picture taken on 28.07.2006, 12:27:26 PM at 55°16'53.58 N and 20°58'39.69E pointing camera West. RicohGR digital camera with 1/1.8in 8.13 MP CCD. processor. Image averaged in Photoshop CS3 environment with final CMYK values:
C-37, M - 22, Y - 16, K- 0. HEX value: #A1C7D6.
