‘Geo-graphy’ project
Geo-graphy is a speculative proposal for creating 10,000-year landscape images. Couched in Anthropocene geo-aesthetics, the project invites viewers into contemplate geological timescales as well as often-obscured planetary-scale flux: the change of geological forms, shifting ecologies, as well as human-built features.
Analysis of historical images is a technique used to investigate landscape change but is limited by photography’s 180-year existence. While long in human terms, a ‘snapshot’ of geological landscape might better be taken over 10,000 years (315,360,000,000 seconds). This time frame (shutter speed) would render a composite image capturing geological dynamics. Capture devices would be positioned in different locations around the planet.
The project also acts as a design and engineering provocation in how to build and operate technology over such an extended time frame: fabricating durable structures, capture devices capable of operating reliably over thousands of years, as well as contemplating how such images might be accessed, and by whom.