Artist Statement, 05/12

Geologic processes and digital processes exist on scales of time that do not allow for direct human observation, one being impossibly slow, the other impossibly fast. While both processes determine characteristics of the spaces we inhabit and the ways in which we inhabit them to a significant degree, for the most part our perspective only allows us to see their effects, not the process itself.
My artistic practice attempts to bring together these polarities visually. My photographic interests are drawn to geological formations, such as shoreline rock outcrops.  I shoot using a digital camera, and after importing the images onto my computer I use them as the raw materials in my technique of recombinant photography. Piece by piece, I import fragments from many different images into a new digital canvas, where they are arranged according to precise geometric guidelines. The resulting composite image retains recognizable characteristics of rock, yet any definite horizon or perspective are abandoned. The geometric arrangements suggest physical structure, yet without reference points of human scale a disorientating effect is created. This confusion of physical scale reflects the incomprehensibility of the time scales of geologic and digital processes, drawing into focus that which operates outside of human perspective.

Andrew Godsalve, May 2012