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an archaeology of device II - Lloyd Godman

The harnessing of power, water solar, hydro, petrochemical, nuclear with the intention to affect matter. From rudimentary chipped flint stone to coda, implements affect the physical environment and eventually become artifacts of past actions. Even if the artifact has never formed the task it was designed for, even if by fate it is made for a purpose but never used, the shape deceives the purpose, and it represents the actions of other such objects. 

Representations of wilderness, images of a pristine landscape. The photographic component is instigated from unrelated photographs of the landscape, areas that I identified with, but unlike other projects I have worked on, these often had little geographical reference to each other. Isolated images from different sources of geographic location that have a seductive quality for one reason or another. There is a geographic indeterminacy, but a visual linkage

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