artist Shane McAdams creates surrealist pieces using cross sections of trees to celebrate the beauty of nature. Their organic shapes robust sit in contrast with colored streaks that look like digital anomalies. This work reflects his love of landscapes. In many ways, the process acts as a distillation of landscape imagery in its purest form.
In a series called trees the artist creates a collision between natural and artificial elements, matching wood and bark from synthetic materials .
to create these pieces, McAdams uses a variety of mixed media such as Elmer's glue, ink, correction fluid, and plastic resin. It uses this relatively mundane materials in unusual ways, pushing them beyond their traditional boundaries.
Shane McAdams
Shane McAdams
This is the land itself that inspired McAdams to create his art. He grew up surrounded by dramatic rock formations in the southwest. The fact that nature can create complex and beautiful masterpieces stuck with McAdams.
"I will always marvel at how time differential effects can create something more structured, one that I can never do with my own hands," he said. "This reminder of the human folly persisted. He forced me to consider how my production as artist refers to the actual source of inspiration, and the earth itself. "
The slices you see here are cut diagonally, which causes them to be oblong instead of round. Senses are enhanced by the distorted image.
Shane McAdams
Shane McAdams
Shane McAdams
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the result of this work is a strangely harmonious meeting of natural objects and manufactured. It also brings the conversation on how organic compounds entering a largely synthetic world, as these pieces are at once ancient and modern.
You can see more of McAdams work on his website.
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