When my TV “falls asleep,” its screen shifts from glittering ocean scenes to lush jungles to dramatic, snow-covered peaks. Sitting on the couch with my dog, I watch, transfixed. Ironically, my patio door faces a small mountain, yet when I let the dog out, the real view rarely captivates me in the same way. I’ve been trained to crave the oversaturated color and quick pace of the digital world.  

  

HD Landscapes reflects a mediated experience of viewing nature. The series reveals  alienation from the environment born from the digital Disneyfication of nature. These mixed-media stretched works combine digitally-printed fabric, digital embroidery, and painting. Appropriated content—stock photos, premade embroidery patterns, references to open-source 3d models, and clip art—show the work’s digital origins and filter nature through an online lens.  

 

The series recalls Photoshop fails in advertisements, where “enhancements” twist beauty into something strange; models’ fingers stretch into talons, collarbones angle unnaturally, and shoulders appear dislocated. Similarly, we enhance, simplify, and symbolize nature until it barely references the beauty and wholeness of its original forms. Through the fragmentation in this work, I aim to spark longing for the completeness that exists in nature and a renewed desire to reassemble the natural world we fracture.