Deep Southwest


  • Photographer
    Stuart Sperling
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    1999-2010
  • Technical Info
    39"x59" 3D Stereo Pigment Prin

3D Stereo Photographs of erosion & fractal-scaling patterns in the American Southwest. Please use red/cyan glasses for viewing. Each image is composed of two separate views, captured on individual film frames, then toned and composited. 39”x59” pigment prints. Stuart Sperling’s pieces foster an active state of contemplation and may be used as mandalas for the meditative mind. They express his fascination with perception and the processes by which we gain insight into ourselves and the world. The arena of three-dimensional presentation, with its emphasis on environment & context, encourages viewers to look into, out, around, and within.

Story

To feel into the landscapes of the American Southwest is an act of mind-blowing redefinition. Geological forces act in the present tense, revealing the essential liquidity of all that is. Pattern repeat at all scales - nesting within one another, feeding back on one another, being born of one another, and dissolving within each other. As a viewer and photographer in these landscapes, I can’t help but to lose reference to my own scale and time-base. The flows of land, wind, water, and light expand my boundary of self. By choosing the medium of 3D stereoscopic photography, I endeavor to activate people’s senses of wonder and fascination and to immerse them in a living experience of the natural world – and of and seeing, itself.

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