tia factor

While at a month long residency at Port Arthur Historical Site in Tasmania, Australia, I painted a series of landscapes that act as an enhancement to the more obvious exterior realities of the historic site, the standard postcard-like images of a tourist destination. Using informal interviews gathered from visitors to the site, I produced corresponding “mental maps” for each impression gathered. I combined concrete or objectively “real” exterior aspects of the site with the intuitive, psychic, or purely emotional responses of the interviewees. The paintings help to reveal how our internal landscape is shaped by the external landscape we are surrounded by.