Tod Emel
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  • Audio
    • Traces
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    • micro | sound | house
    • Remote
    • bigSMALL
  • Visual
    • A Forest
    • Topo
    • Landscapes
  • Curation
    • Roadside Attractions
    • Unheard Sound Series
    • Preserves
  • About
    • Bio
    • CV
  • Contact
  • Blog
Tod Emel

Landscapes

Beginning in 2015, I've produced an extensive body of  highly abstracted mountain landscape paintings, using a graphic, cartoon-like quality and neon bubblegum/pastel palette. Eschewing verisimilitude in depicting the landscape, I emphasize the artifice in these processes of abstraction. Conceptually this relates to how we tend to experience iconic vistas of the Canadian landscape through a sort of semiotic shorthand; i.e. we've all seen postcard perfect shots of Lake Louise so many times, we're no longer perceiving the scene directly but rather through processes of symbolic representation. ​
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