Matthew Portch, Lost America (LANDSCAPE 2024)

From an ongoing series, Lost America examines a quiet stillness in a forgotten landscape that is, in a sense, 'on pause'. Backwater towns and rural corners are juxtaposed with the ambiguity of detached suburbia. Places appear frozen in time, their inhabitants absent or long since departed. Ardently stagnant in appearance, the places yearn to instill a melancholic feeling of familiarity. One might not notice these spaces when viewed within the vast stretch of America’s panorama. Yet, framed as a vignette, each space could appear to echo a moment of mournful reverie and reflective contemplation.

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