Saturday, December 09, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Artist Statement
Maria C.R. Harrington
The intent of my art is to present nature in different perspectives to the viewer and thus challenge them intellectually and emotionally to reflect on their personal relationship with nature. The views are intentionally framed in an almost surrealistic way, but juxtaposed with the high fidelity realistic 3D computer graphic representation of the earth, ecology, trees, plants and flowers. Furthermore, the heightened realism is the result of a scientific visualization process based on data derived from my PhD research.
This is a set of six individual photographs of a virtual ecology, Trillium Trail, located in Fox Chapel, PA. This wildflower reserve is known for wildflowers in the springtime, the Trillium. Together, they guide the viewer to see the forest from the perspective of the earth, close to a flower, underneath the terrain, below a waterfall or at the bottom of a great tree. The viewer is challenged once again with a surrealistic perspective and a higher, more detailed, super realistic image.