Untitled cloud form via google earth, from the series Equivalence

Equivalence is a gods-eye view of satellite mapping cloud glitches, rendered in Google Earth. It sits in conversation with Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalents series which looked skyward at clouds for metaphorical content. Although abstracted, Stieglitz sought photographic accuracy. In Equivalence, the various operations of algorithms on visual material introduce techno-visual implications that include the unseen, the fragmentary, and the complicated relationship between the real and the fabricated.

sources: Google Earth, Maxar, Landsat/Copernicus, SIO, NOAA, US Navy, NGA, GEBCO

jpg: 6000 x 3442 px | 3.6M

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