First There is a Mountain, 2014 (Bleu Acier Gallery, Tampa, FL)
Using a photograph of Mont Blanc taken by Swiss aerial pioneer Walter Mittleholtzer in 1935 as a starting point, First There is a Mountain traces paths through the rhizome of historical connections to Mont Blanc, and representation of landscape both before and after satellite imaging systems.
Mont Blanc 1935, Photogravure
Mont Blanc Double Negative, 2013, Photogravure and etching printed on Somerset Satin
Untitled: Wireframe woodcut prints based on reconstructed ASTER GDEM data
Mont Blanc, 360 rotation High Definition 3D animation culled from ASTER GDEM data, 10 minute loop
Summit, cast bronze on polished copper
From left to right: "Walter Mittelholzer's route to Ethiopia," (digital print and ink) Double Mountain, (photogravure) and Haile Selassie 1934 (digital print)
From left to right: "Wireframe I, Wireframe II, Wireframe III, and Walter Mittelholzer's route to Ethiopia
From left to right: Hailie Selassie and Mont Blanc I & Mont Blanc II