Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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David Maisel’s Aerial Photos, scored by Howie B
The World’s Best Land Art
Vertiginous Vistas
David Maisel’s Aerial Photos, scored by Howie B
The beguiling sky-high photographs of David Maisel
offer an array of dizzying impressions. Some appear to be dappled,
abstract oil paintings; others resemble animal pelt viewed through a
microscope; a few suggest geometric collages cut from forest-green
pieces of card. In fact, Maisel’s aerial images of terrain adulterated
by humans––open pit mines, clear-cut forests, zones of water
reclamation––employ to great effect the philosophy that distance can
make the eye grow fonder. Working from a four-seater plane made by the
renowned Cessna at an altitude
range of 500 to 12,000 feet, Maisel spends four hours at a time in the
air to find the perfect shot, sometimes removing an entire window as
the pilot banks the plane to gain the optimum position. The selection
here is of never-seen images by Maisel taken above the Great Salt Lake
in Utah, the searing colors a product of the water’s high mineral
content. Alongside, we present a hypnotic electric piano composition
created as an audio response to the photographs by DJ and
super-producer Howie B, who has enabled artists such as Björk, U2 and Tricky to realize their sonic vision.
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