greenwork (aerial wall)
Title
greenwork (aerial wall)
Subject
Virginia
Art
Description
Rosemary Laing's photographs are deeply theatrical and hover between fantasy and reality. In this work, she renders the seemingly impossible possible by exclusively using digital manipulation. In greenwork (aerial wall), Laing explores the theme of visual perception by depicting a distorted wall of intense blurred green that bisects an immense tree canopy. As her source material, Laing references a black and white photograph, View from Nimbin Rocks taken by Australian photographer Peter Elliston that she then digitizes, hyper-saturated with color, and distorts to create the illusion of a time warp.
Creator
Rosemary Laing (Australian, Born 1959)
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Format
image/jpeg
Type
Image
Identifier
TAU_ART_000133
2007.007
Date Created
1995
Is Part Of
Taubman Museum of Art
Medium
photograph
digitally altered image
Provenance
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries
Taubman Museum of Art (Repository)
Gift of Jerome and Ellen Stern
Files
Collection
Citation
Rosemary Laing (Australian, Born 1959), “greenwork (aerial wall),” Southwest Virginia Digital Archive, accessed January 25, 2025, https://di.lib.vt.edu/items/show/957.