The Great Outdoors, Orcas Island, Washington, Edition #8/50
Artist
David Robbins
MediumEktacolor, type c color photograph
Dimensions22 x 25 in. (55.9 x 63.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
In this work, David Robbins' intention is to make the photographs function simultaneously as cosmetically seductive, absurd, humorous and psychologically disconcerting. He attempts to describe the absurd ways in which man-made and natural landscapes collide. The photographs propose abstract juxtapositions of visual elements that evoke, but do not document a particular place. They do not depict actual human presence, but instead furnish a backdrop to man's eventual arrival on center stage.
Sheila Mullen