Sometimes , Google Maps throws up some salient imagery — and nowDavid Thomas Smithhas seized on some of the more prominent elements to create a series of artworks that combine satellite images with intake from traditional Persian rug - fashioning . The results are arresting .
Smith ’s first solo show , called Anthropocene , depict off eight such works , each as complex and striking as the next . In the words of Cooper House Gallery , where the works are on show :
Anthropocene itself reflects upon the complex social system that make up the centers of global capitalism , transforming the aery landscapes of sites connect with industries such as oil color , wanted alloy , consumer refinement data and excess . yard of apparently undistinguished tantalise pieces of information are sown together like knots in a rug to bring out a grander spectacle . Questions of photographic and economical realities are further complicated through the courtly use of patterns that have their origins in the ancient civilizations of Persia . This study draws upon the pattern and motif used by Persian carpeting Creator , peculiarly the way Afghani weavers apply the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war snap Din Land that surrounds them . This collision between the erstwhile and the new , fact and fiction , surveillance and invisibility , is part of a strategy to mull on the global order of things .
Whether you draw all of that from these images or not , there ’s no denying that they ’re stunning piece . The exposition is currently on display at the Cooper House Gallery in Dublin , Ireland . [ Cooper House GalleryviaBeautiful DecayviaVerge ]
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