Man / Earth

Man/Earth A View of the Modern Landscape While traveling the world to see glorious vistas and inspiring cultural sights, artist Greta Grigorian has been drawn to overlooked scenery in unexpected places. From Colorado's mountaintops to China's countryside, Maui's coastlines to Mexican plateaus, among all the beauty, she's captured evocative photographs of landscapes littered with life's leftovers. Her eye uncovers the rusted carcass of a car engulfed in ivy, an abandoned building on a...
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Man/Earth A View of the Modern Landscape While traveling the world to see glorious vistas and inspiring cultural sights, artist Greta Grigorian has been drawn to overlooked scenery in unexpected places. From Colorado's mountaintops to China's countryside, Maui's coastlines to Mexican plateaus, among all the beauty, she's captured evocative photographs of landscapes littered with life's leftovers. Her eye uncovers the rusted carcass of a car engulfed in ivy, an abandoned building on a deserted road, and a remote field piled with mysterious debris. Often, these modern ruins contrast with a cloud-filled azure sky or serene lake. Like still life compositions, these discarded remnants in nature conjure stories of what happened. Grigorian's compelling collection offers portraits of haunting fragments of other times'a former sugar plantation, stacks of potato sacks in a forsaken factory, a pier destroyed by a storm. The imagination is stirred by her intriguing images of an eerie vacant lot, a locked shrine hinting at past secrets. Her journeys reveal a crumbling bridge, an empty silo, a water tank swallowed by a tree, as if the earth can consume and reclaim our rubbish. This document of the photographer's fascination with tomorrow's archaeological settings, Man/Earth illustrates the footprint of our presence in discarded heaps, oblivious to our impact on the earth. Take the trip to appreciate her wonderings.