Scenic
Scenic: a travelogue
Mary V. Marsh
“Scenic” is a tour of eight views of concealment solutions; cell towers disguised as trees. A two-layer accordion-fold opens up to a landscape of scenery. The photopolymer intaglio prints show details of the fake trees, combined together and watercolored, they evoke a continuous landscape. Original text ponders the intersection of a road trip and our digital messages traveling through a fabricated landscape. I was imagining a tourist souvenir from a past era. The table-top diorama can be opened up, arranged, and shared to remember a trip. It can then be folded up and placed in the enclosure inside a portfolio cover, ready to put back on the bookshelf.
Accordion-fold book. Photopolymer intaglio, watercolor, linoleum cut, handcut, handset type on Rives BFK, Bugra, and Colorplan paper. Foil-stamped cloth portfolio, with inside enclosure. 9” x 51” x 6” open, 11.5” x 9.5” x 1” in portfolio
"A moving panorama, seen through car windows and screens.
Our messages travel from one transceiver to the next,
the camouflaged towers a destination on the journey.
Digits transmitted by radio waves, and relayed through network protocols,
trace our movements.
The landscape as stage set."