Tempest
Don Manderson (Pensacola, FL)
Digital Photography augmented with fabricated imagery,
40” W x 25” H
Artwork:
Comment regarding the urgency and speed of climate changes taking place on the planet.
Artist Statement:
My work examines the simultaneous and insistent nature of the human sensory experience in a society that is increasingly technical and transitory. This is exemplified by society’s expectations for individuals to simultaneously process and act on input from multiple digital and analog sources while experiencing the spectrum of human interactions (conversation, advertisement, entertainment, social media, education, art, journalism, etc.). The imagery in my work is inspired by my subconscious and dream state attempts to reconcile this relentless sensory bombardment. The resulting digital montages present multiple layers of edited photographic detail (altered transparency, value, hue, saturation, texture, etc.) that interact visually and metaphorically. Viewers are thus confronted with a visual field that invites inference of the piece's intended social and/or political narrative in a manner that is reminiscent of their own simultaneous sensory experiences.