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IMAGES THAT PLAY WITH PERCEPTION – “ANTHROPOCENE” BY DAVID THOMAS
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Entitled “ANTHROPOCENE”, these David Thomas Smith satellite photography stills capture kaleidoscopic areal views of various global landscapes. From dry deserts and rocky mountain tops to lush greenery and untouched forests, these dynamic  images play with perception.

The Dublin based artist is a graduate of the University of Wales, Newport where he obtained a degree in Documentary Photography. Known for always experimenting, David Thomas Smith creates visual masterpieces that test visual boundaries.

Smith’s work is comprised from thousands of digital files that are created from aerial view satellite images. From explorations of the third dimension to themes affecting social and political issues, the artist captures complex and meaningful photographs that are conscious of important subjects while retaining their air of aesthetic richness.

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Composited from digital files drawn from aerial views taken from internet satellite images, Anthropocene reflects upon the complex structures that make up the centers of global capitalism, transforming the aerial landscapes of sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture information and excess. Thousands of seemingly insignificant coded pieces of information are sown together like knots in a rug to reveal a grander spectacle.

Questions of photographic and economic realities are further complicated through the formal use of patterns that have their origins in the ancient civilizations of Persia. This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war torn land that surrounds them. This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the global order of things.

David Thomas Smith is a Dublin based, Irish artist who is a graduate of the University of Wales, Newport, where he obtained a degree in Documentary Photography. Smith hopes to continue developing his photographic practice and pushing the boundaries of his medium.

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