From top to bottom: Backwoods, Day Use Only, No Flight Zone
The series Strange Terrain came at a point in my life where I was experiencing a lot of new freedom, as well as a lot of uncertainty. My body is superimposed with topographic maps not from a place I have actually been, but a place that is very nearby. This is expressing how sometimes something can feel very familiar but also very new. A new sense of bodily, personal, and mental autonomy abounded but I also couldn’t shake the feeling that this wasn’t something new, rather something I had lost connection with and was then rediscovering about myself.
Aesthetically, this piece acts as an exploration of the similarities between topographic curves and the curves of the human body, examining the mirror one sometimes sees between the human figure and other aspects of nature.