The images shown on these pages are part of a series Mr. Sedjal had been working on using organic matter collected from various locations he has visited, and playing with one of the mandatory accoutrements of the visual art world. Thinking about the way in which artists are often compelled to photograph their large works and consign them to the pockets of plastic slide sheets, he decided to reverse the process and start with the slidesheets themselves. He places small quantities of soil, moss, foliage and the like into the pockets and fills them with water taken from the same area. As the "slides" go through various stages of evaporation, little landscapes are formed that are, as he says "the size of our eyes." He then scans these slidesheets and, from the resulting image files, he is able to make very large, vivid, digital prints. Using a variety of fine papers, he has made prints that range in size from 8.5" x 11" sheets of twenty "eye-sized" images to single landscapes up to five or six wide. These evocative prints are especially striking when displayed along side the original slide sheets­ wrinkled and protruding with bits of red earth, seaweed, tobacco leaves, or sand.

photo: Jeff Cravotta