“ How nonfigurative can a landscape become while remain a landscape painting ? ” That ’s the interrogative Dutch lensman Gerco de Ruijter take himself , set off with a camera on a collapsable fishing rod to shoot the Netherlands ’ forests . The result : surprisingly , gorgeously abstract .
BLDGBLOG has a handful of de Ruijter ’s shots , all of which show trees looking in spades untreelike . But attractively untreelike , too ! And the project only gets better when you hear how he took the photos : Some were bust with a kite tractor trailer , others , amusingly , by attaching the television camera to the end of a collapsable fishing rod . How ’s that ?
On top of this perch is a 2.5″ x 2.5″ camera with a wide - slant crystalline lens . A ego - timer is adjusted to give me enough fourth dimension to telescope the rod and manoeuver the camera above the depicted object . The frame of the simulacrum begins in front of my own shoes and measures or so 30′ x 30′.
I ’ll never look at trees , or fishing , the same way again . [ BLDGBLOG ]
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