My prints are composed from original geographic digital data, built up as a mosaic of tiles, strategically shadowed and colored to reflect the terrain at hand, then finished in scale, crop and rotation design. They try to reveal cases of broadscale beauty which are unseeable in reality, even from orbital heights due to cloud and haze.

Nearly all pieces have a foundation of an elevation surface, but about a third have an overlain layer of natural-color Landsat imagery, to add the realities of cities, field pattern and other human sign. The bottom layer of elevation is allowed to show through translucently, resulting in a striking three-dimensional effect.

They show connectivity of place, the nesting of neighborhoods, the sheer size of distances, and the relatively tiny part of our world that we personally inhabit. This is not a competing exercise to Google Earth, where we satisfy our curiosity by zooming into specific places. My prints are meant for exploring, for feeling small, and for growing into a more global community by knowing more places than our own.