Leigh Merrill
Blue Shelter, Red Sign, 2025
archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper
18 x 18 inches
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Series: Thesaurus of Air
Window and Wind is a collection of photographic collages that trace the boundaries between human activity and the environments in which we live. I use photography as a means of thinking through how we construct reality: I am interested in photography's ability to be evidence of existence, an image with seeming veracity, and simultaneously, a system to mediate and interpret reality. Working with thousands of individual photographs I have made of architecture and landscaping, I digitally assemble these sources to create images of fictional spaces, echoing the sense of perpetual longing built into the American landscape. In Window and Wind and Thesaurus of Air, photographs have been combined, layered, redacted until the photographic information opens into something more fluid, an image that reflects but reinvents the spaces in which we inhabit.
Provenance
Liliana Bloch Gallery inventoryExhibitions
2025, Thesaurus of Air, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for The Arts, Lubbock, TexasLiterature
https://glasstire.com/2026/06/04/top-five-june-4-2026/1
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