Natural imitation

Through her anthropological approach to art making, Nicole Jean Hill, photographer and faculty member in the art department of Humboldt State University, portrays familiar spaces and activities within the American cultural landscape. “I pursue”, tell us Hill, “a systematic documentation of the control we assert over land through subject matter that is neither spectacular nor extraordinary”. Her interest in the ordinary changes induced by human is very clear in the entrancing series “Reclamation”. “I photographed the Douglas County landfill”, she write us in a brief statement, “outside of Omaha, Nebraska over a two-year period. Nestled in the rolling hills of the countryside, the landfill mimicked the natural landscape when seen from certain vantage points, while revealing itself as a manmade heap from others”.

Photo:

© Courtesy of Nicole Jean Hill

www.nicolejeanhill.com

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