Young Woman; Brown

by Sandy Kessler Kaminski

“I try to place the viewer in a specific time and space. To do this, I have been exploring the intersection between technology and nature with humanity as the facilitator. With history as a guide, I use engineering schematics, designs, maps and architectural plans to show how, even in small ways humans continually shape our world and ourselves. Plans and designs document the ideas and dreams. Innovations, displayed in the drawings that were once groundbreaking and new are now discarded or considered irrelevant. As these change the outdated drawings, representing what was previously built, continues to affect us and the environment. Circuitboards look like neighborhoods, towns and cities. Nature is always nipping at us, reminding us to think beyond ourselves and look to and include it in our schemes. Placing the natural word with our ideas shows how important it is to consider more than immediate, short-term solutions, but ones that endure.”