Alphanumeric Sublime
[2020]
The information age has rendered traditional conceptions of the sublime obsolete. No place is unknowable with Google Earth, and our phones nullify most terrors of a vast, untamed wilderness. Alphanumeric Sublime cheekily comments on our mediated relationship with nature, generating paintings of the sublime as alphanumeric character mosaics.
The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church, 1859
The Andes of Ecuador by Frederic Edwin Church, 1855
Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865
The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church, 1861
Valley of the Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt, 1864