"Untitled Landmark" 2018
Screenprints
100 x 70 cm
Untitled Landmark is a series of screen prints derived from maps each sourced from a different country, then stripped down to the essence of their strokes. The thickness, density, and dispersion of these lines become telling indicators of each location’s story. At first glance, they resemble abstract compositions, but upon closer inspection, they reveal the fragile anatomy of cities: buildings, lakes, roads, and the scars left behind by conflict, disaster, and human intervention.
In this work, satellite imagery is reinterpreted into a purely linear form, extracted from Google Earth’s timeline at the exact dates when a city’s fabric shifted dramatically. The white voids in the prints absent of any mark become loaded spaces: bodies of water, uninhabited land, or zones wiped clean by war. Through these visual absences and presences, the work maps both survival and erasure.
The world undergoes constant transitions: geography reshapes, political landscapes overturn, and settings transform under the weight of human and natural forces. These shifts are not just historical markers but living evidence of how environments absorb, resist, or succumb to change. What is the most important factor driving this transformation? Can a city, a landscape, or even the world, retain its original form? And is each change a resolution, or merely a threshold to the next crisis?
In reducing these places to lines, Untitled Landmark deconstructs the transformation itself, reconstructing it as both document and witness to the evidence and aftermath of disaster.