Near Seas, Far Seas

Can a landscape be made from more than one place?

In Near Seas, Far Seas, footage of the Caspian Sea in Iran and Massachusetts Bay in the United States is brought together within geometric structures inspired by Islamic art and architecture. While these waters remain geographically distant, the image allows them to inhabit the same landscape.

The resulting landscape belongs fully to neither place alone. It exists only within the image, where distant geographies occupy the same visual space without being reduced to a single location. The two seas remain distinct, yet become part of a shared landscape that could not otherwise exist.

Here, geometry provides the structure through which this landscape is assembled. Shaped by a visual tradition grounded in close observation of the natural world, it creates a shared space in which distant places can meet without losing their distance.

Rather than recording the world as it is, Near Seas, Far Seas uses the image to create a landscape that is possible only within the image itself.

* HD Video, Color, Sound, 2 min 8 sec (Loop)