Manifest Landscape 2006

Digital Images, size variable.

Manifest Landscape is a community-based project that engages the field Environmental Aesthetics to create a methodology for the preservation of natural landscape as open space with the goal of species protection.

This project investigate sites where there are endangered or threatened species - especially those with encroaching development. The the landscape where these species live are photographed and digitally manipulated to create dramatic large-scale images based on the work of 19th century landscape painters. The second stage of the project is to exhibit the work in the communities where they were photographed. As part of the exhibition individuals from the community – homebuyers, developers, civic leaders, and others – will be invited to meet in a forum to discuss open space, environmentally fragile lands, and encroaching development toward creating a dialog about solutions that would allow for the coexistence of these spaces with the needs for housing.

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