“We are entering an age that might someday be referred to as, say, the Anthropocene.
After all, it is a geological age of our own making."

– A. Revkin


Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
(180cm x 120cm Duratran mounted in Light box)
Edition of 3




Las Vegas, NV,
United States of America 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith



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Silicon Valley, CA,
United States of America 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith



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Fimiston Open Pit,
Kalgoorlie-Boulder,
Western Australia,
Australia, 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith



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Delta Coal Port,
Vancouver, BC,
Canada, 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith



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Las Norias de Daza,
Almeria,
Spain 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith


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Burj Dubai,
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith



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1000 Chrysler Dr,
Auburn Hills, MI,
United States 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith


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Beijing International Airport, Beijing,
People’s Republic of China, 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith

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Mall of America,
East Brodway, Bloomington, MN,
United States 2009-10
© David Thomas Smith


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Three Mile Island Generating Station,
Middletown, PA,
United States of America 2010-11
© David Thomas Smith



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Biosphere 2,
Oracle, AZ,
United States of America 2010-11
© David Thomas Smith



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Three Gorges Dam,
Sandouping, Yiling, Hubei,
People's Republic of China. 2010-11
© David Thomas Smith



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Composited from thousands of digital files drawn from aerial views taken from internet satellite images, this work reflects upon the complex structures that make up the centres 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.

All prints come as:

180cm x 120cm Duratran Print Mounted in LED Light-box
Edition of 3
Price: €3,950

or

109cm x 78cm C-type Print with Durospec Archival Mounting
Edition of 9
Price: €1,500