2012-04-13
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Transmission by Dan Holdsworth, via Architizer:
At first glance, British artist Dan Holdsworth’s work might depict any number of things: crumpled up paper napkins, a washed-out image from the surface of Mars, or even microscopic fractal patterns.
In fact, the images are 3D renderings of America’s most famous natural wonders. There’s the Grand Canyon, Mount Saint Helens, and the Great Salt Lake: by cloaking the models in a featureless white, Holdsworth shows us America’s “backyard” as a scaleless study in texture and detail.
Holdsworth worked from digital terrain models created by the United States Geological Survey Data to create the series, called Transmission: New Remote Earth Views.
There’s a lot more at the artist’s site, including more conventional in-landscape views. The series is being exhibited at the Brancolini Grimaldi gallery in London until 19 May 2012.
