groundspeed, (Rose Petal) #17
Artist: Rosemary Laing (Australian, born 1959)
Date: 2001
Dimensions:
Image size: 43 5/16 x 76 3/4 inches (110 x 195 cm)
Paper size: 48 13/16 x 82 5/16 inches (124 x 209 cm )
Medium: C Type Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2016.2
Label Text:At first look, this photograph by Australian artist Rosemary Laing appears to be a digital manipulation. But look closer—it is actually the result of a painstakingly staged installation. To create this scene, Laing laid down industrially produced carpet in a South Australia forest. The result, like all of the works in her groundspeed series, is a jarring intrusion of human culture into the natural world. Laing's work deftly draws attention to the complex relationship between the consumerist needs and material output of modern society and our increasing encroachment on nature.
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