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Alabama #18-6

Barry W. Andersen

Artwork Details

Alabama #18-6
1987
Barry W. Andersen
archival inkjet print on epson exhibition fiber paper
14 x 18 in. (35.56 x 45.72 cm)
Gift of the artist
2015/2.53

Description

Subject Matter:

In his photographic works, Andersen shows the mark of human activity on landscape. This photograph shows plough lines, visible in the brown land. Part of a larger series of aerial landscapes he created in the 1980s, this scene moves between legibility as a landscape and mere abstract patterning. The plough lines mimick the line of shrubbery, as if creating ripples in a pond. 

Physical Description:


Print of an aerial view of plowed fields with U-shaped designs left by the machinery. A green swath cuts through the bottom fo the picture in another U-shape.

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