The Post-Industrial Landscape as a Romanticist Narrative
ROMANTICISM
a. An artistic and intellectual vision characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis
on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and
forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.

The romanticist mind revels in the individual, subjective, irrational, imaginative, personal,
spontaneous, emotional, visionary and transcendental. It delights in self-analysis and in the
pursuit of the sublime, of the emotional over the representational. In imagining a past that never
was that maybe could have been, the romanticist mindset sees a landscape where the remains
of what was can become a vision of an invented place.

This work attempts an exploration of territories of many pasts, both recent and distant, seen as
an imagined reality that never quite was. The photographic frame becomes a willful filter to view
the sublime and to express an emotion derived from the remains from other realities.