Jesse Fleming's Desert (2010), was shot in California's Joshua
Tree National Park, 140 miles east of Los Angeles. The park is over
1200 square miles of high altitude desert with bizarre geological
features. Fleming lived remotely in the park for one month working
between the uninhabited and habited landscape. He approaches this
work as a disciplined observer: setting out to document life in the
arid landscape and the intricacies that exist between the Desert's
people and landscape. This catalog features a selection of
photographs from the project Desert, along with images from the
ethereal IT series (2010), distilling the content of Desert to
shape, light, color, and atmospheric perspective. The resulting
book is a hypnotic, sublime, and cryptic piece. - Anat Ebgi DESERT
by Jesse Fleming Printed for the occasion of the exhibition Desert,
at The Company, March 12 - April 23, 2011 introduction by Anat Ebgi
interview by Amanda Law photographs, sequencing, and book design by
Jesse Fleming "The desert is less nature than a concept, a place
that swallows up boundaries. When the artist goes to the desert he
enriches his absence and burns off the water on his brain... A
consciousness of the desert operates between craving and satiety."
--Robert Smithson, excerpted from A Sedimentation of the Mind:
Earth Projects (1968)
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