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I started taking these photos while I was recovering from a trimalleolar fracture, as a way to continue photographing while confined to my home. Producing images that are passable as real but may fall apart with a second look. So the photos have always been grounded in ideas about simulacra. Screens dominate so much of our experience, our interaction, and our understanding; why not photograph them exclusively? The landscape photos are imbued with this contradictory relationship between the digital landscapes and the real landscapes they are based on. The same parallel compute advancements that render games with increasing detail are fueling Generative AI's expansion and the resulting environmental impact. In some ways photographing the game landscapes feels like practice for a future where just simulacra are left.
