Land Arts of the American West

2011

Alexander Bingham

C O N T E N T S

03 I N T R O D U C T I O N

07 R E M E M B R A N C E

I N T RO D UC T I ON

The automobile allows a human to travel faster than they should; altering their perception and interpretation of landscapes in motion as they alter the speed at which they move through them. At the right speed and length of time, the van land relationship reverses, slowing the van to a halt and setting the land in motion.

Over the span of three months while traveling in between New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah with the 2011 Land Arts of the American West fi eld program under Texas Tech University, I used my camera to apprehend the passing. What follows are those nomadic transitory remembrances.

Transfi xed out ward100 million bits per second come inward as I move sixty miles per hour forward.

The near, rush to follow leaving only smudges and blurs.

The far knows better and patently waits.

I stare, fi ltering fl ittering fl ashes to compose a remembrance. Hierarchal boundaries disappear. The lack of contrast dilutes recognition and fuses faltering fl oods of

shapes into nostalgic blushes.

Landscapes come close only to linger in the distance as dreamt topographic refl ections. Then a horse, a sign, an array penetrate contemplation and stick in time,

albite a time devoid of place.