Artwork > 2013 - Greetings From Californa

In Greetings From California I digitally revisit my hometown and surrounding locations in Westlake Village, California. While maintaining the illusion of real-life change I physically manipulate the images taken from Google Street View into more pristine landscapes. I remove pieces of roads, cars, street lamps, signs – changing highways into mountains, streets to beaches, buildings into lakes, adding trees and clear skies. I use composited Street View photographs as a way to virtually document and physically remodel territories into something that looks like its dissolving and virgin. It’s like attempting to describe a ghost or a dream - always falling increasingly out of view - into the void of fantasy, nostalgia and memory. My process is dedicated to the longing to experience my home environment unaffected by human influence, a desire I know I will never succeed at with Google photographic artifacts.

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photo collage and gouache on paper
9”x12”
2013
SOLD
photo collage and gouache on paper
9”x12”
2013
Wish You Were Here (Ventura FWY)
photo collage and gouache on paper
11”x14”
2013
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photo collage and gouache on paper
9”x12”
2013
Greetings From California (Lindero CYN RD)
photo collage , pencil and gouache on paper
9”x12”
2013
Sending You Warm Wishes (Las Virgines RD and Lakeview CYN)
photo collage and gouache on paper
11”x14”
2013
Best (Las Virgines RD)
photo collage and gouache on paper
5.75”x11”
2013
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photo collage, gouache and colored pencil on paper
8.75”x9”
2013
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photo collage and gouache on paper
14”x11”
2013
Forever Yours (Ventura FWY and Lakeview Canyon CT)
photo collage and gouache on paper
11”x14”
2013