GLASS CITIES
STATEMENT Glass Cities is a series of cliché-verre cityscapes. French for glass negative, cliché-verre is a photo-painting hybrid process; the work begins as a painting on glass which is then scanned, enlarged, and printed photographically. The scenes depict luminous, beautiful, and ultimately fragile nighttime cityscapes that don’t disappear when the sun sets. Historically employed during times of change, cliché-verre serves as a bridge between the past and the future as we transition into the digital era, and also as we move from the era of landscape to the cityscape. The images in this series depict characters in our new global mythological system: cities. |