In 2013, I began what was to become a long-term project on the pictorial conventions through which places are depicted and understood. I was researching the lineage between art historical paintings and the proliferation of nature imagery online. I had been an early adopter of Flickr, where the vast majority of photographs of landscapes were expressing idealized norms. Online image culture is self-reinforcing, and within a matter of a few years, the Internet was dominated by billions of repetitive images. The real geographies of the world had become the excuse to construct, via photography, imaginary geographies that live in the memory in parallel to reality, and often at odds with it. I would search and collect examples of various image types, based on keywords: Glaciers, Deserts, Forests, Tropics, Mountains, and others. I would print the images, then cut, fold, and assemble them in my studio as three-dimensional sculptural tableaux, which would be carefully lit and then photographed. Informed by the multi-perspective experiments of Cubism and Constructivism, these works were given the series title Landscape Sublime. Here are some of them made between 2013-2017; Liubov Popova’s painting and theater set proposal, and Rodchenko’s terrifying children’s book photo illustration. #landscapesublime #constructivism