Landscapes of Modernity

With these images, I attempt, in part, to translate some of my academic work on environmental philosophy into visual-photographic form, an effort to express my ideas through art rather than scholarship alone. This form of urban-architectural photography is my effort to build a personal visual record of the so-titled "Anthropocene," which I take to be a descriptor for the period of late-stage modernity, a period wherein human constructs begin to overpower and eclipse nature itself, i.e., “nature” as that which was previously wholly self-sustaining, self-generating, self-regulating and “pristine.” 

I urge the viewer to reflect on the contemporary experience of living in extensively built-up, "artificial," geometrically arranged spaces. I offer these photographs in the hope that you will feel compelled to consider the uncanny aspects of our "modern" dwelling spaces, especially our urban spaces and the massive cuboid structures that surround us: namely, that they are staggeringly beautiful and yet, at the same time, brutal and oppressive.

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