Tesserae Outtakes illustrates this limited edition suite of fifty-four 5 x 5 inch photomontages, which are available as a... More > limited boxed edition of six, available from Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (info at silverman-gallery.com), or from naxsmash group productions (naxsmash at gmail.com ) The Tesserae Outtakes are details of large photomontage images in Christina McPhee's 2009 photomontage project, "Tesserae of Venus", which explores energy-producing landscapes like petroleum fields, natural gas and geothermal production sites---where nature and technology mix in a new form of strange life. Sheltering structures called tesserae models appear inside each image, suggesting a future architecture to weather a carbon saturated atmosphere.

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book for the exhibition 'Tesserae of Venus,' Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, October-December 2009. < Less

La Conchita mon amour is a site study of memorial shrine-building in the aftermath of a deadly debris that occurred in 2005... More > in the town of La Conchita, California, north of Los Angeles. Photomontage images reach through obsessive layers of visual data towards an integration beyond the material facts of the site. The large-scale images that result from this process are topologies of absence and recovery. < Less

Carrizo Topologies explores 'seismic memory' looping between the psychic space of human traumatic memory and the... More > geomorphology of earthquake terrain. Drawings and large scale photomontage with text fragments touch on remnants of seismic visualizations from recent quakes in a dramatic landscape of unpredictable extremes. < Less

Tesserae Outtakes illustrates this limited edition suite of fifty-four 5 x 5 inch photomontages, which are available as a... More > limited boxed edition of six, available from Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (info at silverman-gallery.com), or from naxsmash group productions (naxsmash at gmail.com ) The Tesserae Outtakes are details of large photomontage images in Christina McPhee's 2009 photomontage project, "Tesserae of Venus", which explores energy-producing landscapes like petroleum fields, natural gas and geothermal production sites---where nature and technology mix in a new form of strange life. Sheltering structures called tesserae models appear inside each image, suggesting a future architecture to weather a carbon saturated atmosphere.

Artist
book for the exhibition 'Tesserae of Venus,' Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, October-December 2009. < Less

Carrizo Topologies explores 'seismic memory' looping between the psychic space of human traumatic memory and the... More > geomorphology of earthquake terrain. Drawings and large scale photomontage with text fragments touch on remnants of seismic visualizations from recent quakes in a dramatic landscape of unpredictable extremes. < Less

Buddhist Temple architecture

La Conchita mon amour is a site study of memorial shrine-building in the aftermath of a deadly debris that occurred in 2005... More > in the town of La Conchita, California, north of Los Angeles. Photomontage images reach through obsessive layers of visual data towards an integration beyond the material facts of the site. The large-scale images that result from this process are topologies of absence and recovery. < Less