Andrew W. Martin
Region: West
City / State: Lubbock, TX
Many of my current works are images of communications towers, quiet but insistent, vertical interruptions punctuating the long horizons where I live in West Texas. Images of drive-by landscapes are drawn or painted onto shaped plywood, printed modular 3D forms, or interlaced together in alternating strips on larger surfaces, suggesting at our systems of capturing, disassembling, transmitting, and reassembling digital information.
Traces of the hand, errors of observation, image misalignments, and broken horizontal lines reminiscent of the cathode ray tubes of early television and computer monitors form uneasy, perceptual thresholds. As physical reminders of the constant flow of information that we so easily disassemble and reassemble on the ubiquitous screens of our tablet computers, smart phones, and televisions, they attempt to not only acknowledge the transitory nature of images and the way our technology shapes how we see, but to also reclaim the ‘screen’ as a site for the handmade image.
