Class Pocock Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005

The images of Julia Karst translate online quite well. I have taken the liberty to feature a few color images removed from their series. Each image interjects a 'fake' or unnatural color and form onto the Black Forest winter landscape. Romantic, painterly, the light is remarkable, especially as she used a pocket digital camera.
The project developed from her attention to one tree last semester which she saw and with white lime painted up with an ornamental grammar reminiscent of aboriginal art and costume. This semester she worked with objects that removed themselves from the surface of things, and began to inhabit the landscape. They do not operate with the cleverness so often apparent in photo 'land' art. Julia Karst manages to avoid the monumentalism of that genre, as practised by Andy Goldsworthy, and simply puncuate in a chromoluminist manner, her landscapes.














Julia Karst produced this project (3 scenes, 24 images) one day a week for one semester (14 weeks) in photography. Good work.

From 2004, white lime (harmless) tree painting.