Doonam Lee

Non/Existing Landscapes

Non/Existing Landscapes is a project to draw contemplative landscapes using the environmental images of the 3D maps of Apple and Google. The map images are attributed to the use of high technology; however, many of them are practically unnecessary and thus remain disused. Such abandoned images are probably a reflection of the human desire for representation in that they were represented without a specific functional purpose. This scene wherein nature and modern architecture co-exist is both surreal and real, utopian and dystopian. 

Trees in London

This landscape entails the use of approximately 100 images of London’s 3D green areas: these include Hyde Park and Battersea Park, hills, and golf clubs. The extensive forest looks like a real world, but is a recreated image through which numerous images were selected and combined, and manipulated by tweaking unfinished details.

Construction Sites in London

The construction site images used in this work include three-dimensional representations created by Apple and Google based on site photographs taken in the past years. These construction sites – which are likely to have either changed or disappeared as cells develop, die or transform – have been photographed coincidentally and then represented in 3D. The momentary capturing of these sites has been combined to create the image of an uncertain landscape. 

Books

These books are part of the digital collage series, Non/existing landscapes. They include the documentation of the images used in the landscapes and the visual communication research conducted by me during my Visual Communication MA course.