Soft Ground: Back to the Swamp Forest
Currently based in Los Angeles, Breanna was raised in the mountains of Southern Appalachia where the landscape has been endlessly worked by technologies of extraction. Left behind is a scarred, soft ground.
The cartographic images in her “Soft Grounds” series present bits as matter and landscapes as information through the manipulation of tools engineered to digitize physical conditions. These unearthed and unwrapped visions of the landscape present both a familiar softness and an uncomfortable awareness of geological violence.
Exhibited at Vellum, Los Angeles. Curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
The cartographic images in her “Soft Grounds” series present bits as matter and landscapes as information through the manipulation of tools engineered to digitize physical conditions. These unearthed and unwrapped visions of the landscape present both a familiar softness and an uncomfortable awareness of geological violence.
Exhibited at Vellum, Los Angeles. Curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
digital image on Luma Canvas
4000x4000px
Soft Ground: XL Images from Breanna’s “Soft Grounds” series, presented in maximum resolution at Vellum, Los Angeles. Curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
digital image on xl led screen
~12 ft x 12 ft
soft grounds (cartographic quilts) In
Appalachia, where Breanna grew up, the landscape is endlessly worked by
technologies of extraction. Left behind is a scarred, soft ground. Physical information
from that ground can be exposed at many scales by manipulating surveying and
imaging technologies. By understanding of bits as matter and landscapes as
information, the resulting cartographies are defined, woven, and re-inserted.
motion portraits
140 cm x 100 cm 3d knit quilts
soft grounds (maps)
#008, #014
140cm x 140cm
