Artist Statement
Michael Schall
I draw imagined landscapes where instruments of human industry attempt to somehow alter the surface of the earth. Shown in various stages of construction and decay, these illogical human projects stem from my interest in the ways cities sprawl, in the location of landfills and power plants, in the course of events that led to the abandonment of drive-in movies. Drawn from little visual reference, each piece develops its own inherent logic, resulting in fantastic, yet recognizable, worlds of pipes, rocks, cables, scaffoldings and cliffs. In our society, the things we build shift and change to meet the needs of the things we build next. We understand, even before we start working on the next big project, that everything in time becomes obsolete. The images depicted in my drawings are of worlds where both the futility and the exhilarating potential of our grand constructions are celebrated with equal fervor.
-9/26/06
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