In his carefully constructed, reality-based photographs, artist David Maisel stages careful investigations that use unexpected perspectives to make the invisible visible — in landscapes transformed by industrialization or urbanization, or in our artifacts and memories of the past. Central throughout his works are themes of memory, excavation and transformation, of how we perceive our place on Earth or in time, and what we leave behind as a society.
For four decades, Maisel has chronicled the complex relationships between natural systems and the built environment. Encompassing documentary and aesthetic perspectives in equal measure, his powerful aerial photographs are abstract and graphic, exquisitely colored and painterly — a strange beauty born of environmental degradation.
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