South Dakota Landscape (Primary Title)
David A. Douglas, American, born 1958 (Artist)
"I push around and build compositions with a keyboard, mouse, scanners, and printers in the same way I push around oils on a canvas. [But] the work is no more about the medium than painting is about a paintbrush or a photograph about a camera." —David Douglas
Working in Northern Virginia, Douglas creates plausible yet imaginary places using the computer to build up bits and pieces of found imagery from digital scans. The distressed surfaces of his images are complex and recall Douglas’s experience as a painter and collagist. These surfaces and his moody subjects bring to mind allegorical images made by 19th-century pictorial photographers. This print combines images and other raw material gathered over twelve years. Each elementof the setting, like a vision or dream, seems laden with symbolic import.
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