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Cecilia Schmidt

“Forms of Refinement, Helen”

Archival pigment print

15x17"

http://ceciliaschmidt.com/home.html

http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/show-35-open-call

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Cecilia Schmidt - The Nature of TV

I have worked in sculpture, painting, installation and photography. My work draws from an interest in our deepest desires and connections to each other, to nature and the environment.

Among other subjects, I photograph the television. I take pictures of nature programming from the television or the computer, and then manipulate them to reference their digital origins. These photos explore the influence of digital technology on the way nature is represented in the media, and how we experience nature through technology.

On a daily basis, we are bombarded by images of nature in commercials, television shows, nature and survival shows, and the internet. This proliferation creates the illusion of a boundless natural world. In reality, nature is being extinguished and despoiled, at the same time as more and more of our contact with it occurs through digital representation.