{"id":1142,"date":"1991-12-23T21:52:57","date_gmt":"1991-12-24T01:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2012-02-26T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:07:06","slug":"landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_049.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Landscape\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_049.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_049-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_049-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_049-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n1991<br \/>\nsheetrock cut to topography of 30th parallel, dirt from local landfill, plywood<br \/>\n(American landscape painting) oil on linen, wood, plaster, gold and metal leaf<br \/>\n(Chinese scroll) ink, pigments, ground malachite and azurite on silk<br \/>\n(Persian miniature) paper mounted on wood, watercolor, oxidized silver leaf<\/p>\n<p><em>Landscape<\/em> is an installation about consumption of the metaphysical, through the presence of art, and about materials, through the evidence of our waste. Three traditional nature-loving philosophies, American Emersonian Pantheism, Iranian Zoroastrianism, and Chinese Taoism are represented through paintings. They offer messages ill-suited to fit contemporary culture where the volume of one\u2019s impact on nature is neatly trucked away and buried from view and meditation is commercially mediated. In this room one is given the opportunity to experience not only \u201cglobal art\u201d about landscape, but personal interaction with landscape, as trash-laden local landfill seeps from museum walls \u201crotted\u201d to the contours of the 30th parallel, the latitude that sweeps through the United States, Iran, and China.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_050.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Landscape\" width=\"750\" height=\"541\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_050.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_050-590x426.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_050-700x505.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_050-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_051.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Landscape\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_051.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_051-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_051-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_051-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_052.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Landscape\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_052.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_052-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_052-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_052-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_053.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Landscape\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_053.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_053-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_053-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_053-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_054.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Landscape\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_054.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_054-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_054-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_054-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_055.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Landscape\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_055.jpg 500w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Landscape_055-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1991 sheetrock cut to topography of 30th parallel, dirt from local landfill, plywood (American landscape painting) oil on linen, wood, plaster, gold and metal leaf (Chinese scroll) ink, pigments, ground malachite and azurite on silk (Persian miniature) paper mounted on wood, watercolor, oxidized silver leaf Landscape is an installation about consumption of the metaphysical, through 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