LandEscape Art Review | Page 157

Christin Bolewski

LandE scape

CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW computer generated forms and wire frame grids of mountain models mix with life video recordings; illusionism meets reality. The Taoist principle of transformation becomes the transformation of an imaginary digital landscape. Water, mist or clouds divide the scene naturally through the interplay of mass and void. Mass and void is an important principle of Eastern composition and all of this is highly metaphorical in its origin. Empty space contains the possibility for transformation. Transformation is central to Taoist thought. It is like being in meditation, when the entire cosmos looks like a white
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