Silicon Valley Project (2014 - 2015)
18 images Created 2 Sep 2015
Exhibition History:
10.05.2016 - 11.25.2016
Gallery 688
688 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA
WITNESS : Silicon Valley, An Alternative Landscape
I see landscape as a rich and complex text filled with stories of the past and present. I see landscape as a witness to change over time and space. It had witnessed a past we did not partake. It is a witness of the present. And it will continue to bear witness of the future long after we cease to exist. To photograph the landscape of a geographic region is to suggest a complex story of its past and present. Landscape is a constant source of inspiration for me.
"Witness" is comprised of a series of black and white landscape photographs of my adopted homeland, the Silicon Valley, that invites contemplation and reflection upon this land that has witnessed and endured many changing economic forces and boom and bust economic cycles. By looking back to history, to remnants of the past, to marginalized communities, and landscapes in transition juxtaposing traces of the old and new, these images offer an alternative story to the conventional belief of Silicon Valley as the archetypal promise land of opportunities. These images suggest a multifaceted landscape that is filled with simultaneous promise and disappointment, hope and disillusionment, beauty and loss.
10.05.2016 - 11.25.2016
Gallery 688
688 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA
WITNESS : Silicon Valley, An Alternative Landscape
I see landscape as a rich and complex text filled with stories of the past and present. I see landscape as a witness to change over time and space. It had witnessed a past we did not partake. It is a witness of the present. And it will continue to bear witness of the future long after we cease to exist. To photograph the landscape of a geographic region is to suggest a complex story of its past and present. Landscape is a constant source of inspiration for me.
"Witness" is comprised of a series of black and white landscape photographs of my adopted homeland, the Silicon Valley, that invites contemplation and reflection upon this land that has witnessed and endured many changing economic forces and boom and bust economic cycles. By looking back to history, to remnants of the past, to marginalized communities, and landscapes in transition juxtaposing traces of the old and new, these images offer an alternative story to the conventional belief of Silicon Valley as the archetypal promise land of opportunities. These images suggest a multifaceted landscape that is filled with simultaneous promise and disappointment, hope and disillusionment, beauty and loss.
