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Pass 1

2013

Aaron Rothman

(American, b. 1974)
Culture
America
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
Image: 64.8 x 81.3 cm (25 1/2 x 32 in.); Frame: 76.8 x 92.7 cm (30 1/4 x 36 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
L. E. Holden Fund 2020.284
Copyright
© Aaron Rothman
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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This image contains multiple views of a mountain pass in the eastern Sierra Nevadas.

Description

Aaron Rothman combines several images, taken years apart, of the same site through Photoshop to evoke a gentle dissonance of time and space. “The pictures are partially about the distancing of memory,” he says. The process of layering grays them out, which evokes a nostalgic feel, but “they also have ominous, digital artificiality that offsets the nostalgia.” There are numerous erasures of parts of the landscape; they anticipate its future loss through climate change or land development.
An inkjet print depicts a horizontal landscape beneath a flat, muted teal sky. A lush green valley stretches between mountain ranges toward the center horizon. On the left, hills rise in earthy tan and gray tones. To the right, mountains and foreground are obscured by dense, textured patches of reddish, purple, and white digital noise. A thin dirt path curves across the grassy valley floor, leading the eye into the distance.

Pass 1

2013

Aaron Rothman

(American, b. 1974)
America

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