Landscape #1 - Landscape #4

40 x 30 inches

c print

edition of 1, w/ 1 ap

2007

Vacant Attractions is a body of work in photography that examines human manufactured landscapes as decoration in the American West.

Informed by the tradition of the Romantic Landscape, the work reassesses genre conventions based on contemporary manifestations and usages of landscape.

The work considers an anomalous feature in public space that presides along new roadway developments in the local area. Almost indistinguishable from public parks, these highly ordered utopian landscapes are defined by their perpetual absence of human occupancy. The consequence is that these expansive Edenesque spaces become a unique intermediary between landscape and a decorative garden.