Six framed prints curving to become the floor and the wall. One flat photographic print of two rocks touching
Six framed prints curving to become the floor and the wall. One flat photographic print of two rocks touching

Living With It

Large format film, digital scans, paint, site-specific frames, and molding, gallery bench (space permitting)
dimensions variable
Edition of 6
2025


Between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, American landscape photographers worked to make the vast continent comprehensible by proliferating the ideology of Manifest Destiny with 8x10-inch sheets of film. They compressed the sublime into legible, portable images, which transformed the landscape into something collectible, displayable, and ultimately controllable.
Davis inverts this historical gesture.
In these compositions, rocks collected from both the Eastern and Western United States are placed atop scans of large format, 4x5-inch, sheet film—film that records photographs of interior walls. Through an exaggerated rescaling of the smallest natural elements, the work returns the landscape to the home, not as a site of conquest, but as a main character meant for coexistence.
Within this counter-landscape, geography is not subdued—it is lived.

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