Frequencies of Deep Time: Lake George

Lake George was painted in a time that humans had to shift away from the "biblical" 6,000-year age of the earth to the conception of deep time extended to millions and then billions of years, which was discovered in the birth of the young discipline of Geology in the 19th century. I am interested in exploring the psychological shifts of the people in transitional states of new thought and their implications and reverberations of deep time and long-term thinking today.

This image uses AI, specifically Dall-e 2 to expand Martin Johnson Heade's painting outward creating a new landscape that parallels the impact of Deep Time on the imagination.

Lake George by Martin Johnson Heade American, 1819-1904, North American Paintings 1862 Oil on canvas