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by Ben Erlandson
“These photographs are part of a larger body of work showing the 100-year flooding and aftermath of Hurricane Helene on the New River on the border of North Carolina and Virginia. The river is doing just fine. It's all the human debris that created so much of the problems with flooding. (For example: Fire and Ice shows burning debris piles next to a very healthy looking frozen river, months after the flooding) The river shows unwavering resolve, and so do many of the people who truly feel a sense of place in these riverside communities. We are rethinking immovable objects upon witnessing the unstoppable force.”
-Ben Erlandson
Benjamin Erlandson combines natural light photography and timelapse to interpret natural and built landscapes across scales. Separately and together, these forms help us explore a sense of place for each of us within these spaces, within a single moment or across different time scales. The purpose of the compositions is to encourage us all to think beyond ourselves, our immediate surroundings, and shallow time horizons, expanding into something deeper and broader than what is an increasingly distracted frenetic existence (collectively and individually) on this planet we share with all species. By using various media modalities to explore the juxtaposition of space, time, and light from both internal and external perspectives of human (and non-human) relationships with water and watersheds, Erlandson can create the opportunity for awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the complexities of the world in which we live, starting with a sense of place.
by Ben Erlandson
“These photographs are part of a larger body of work showing the 100-year flooding and aftermath of Hurricane Helene on the New River on the border of North Carolina and Virginia. The river is doing just fine. It's all the human debris that created so much of the problems with flooding. (For example: Fire and Ice shows burning debris piles next to a very healthy looking frozen river, months after the flooding) The river shows unwavering resolve, and so do many of the people who truly feel a sense of place in these riverside communities. We are rethinking immovable objects upon witnessing the unstoppable force.”
-Ben Erlandson
Benjamin Erlandson combines natural light photography and timelapse to interpret natural and built landscapes across scales. Separately and together, these forms help us explore a sense of place for each of us within these spaces, within a single moment or across different time scales. The purpose of the compositions is to encourage us all to think beyond ourselves, our immediate surroundings, and shallow time horizons, expanding into something deeper and broader than what is an increasingly distracted frenetic existence (collectively and individually) on this planet we share with all species. By using various media modalities to explore the juxtaposition of space, time, and light from both internal and external perspectives of human (and non-human) relationships with water and watersheds, Erlandson can create the opportunity for awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the complexities of the world in which we live, starting with a sense of place.