Composited from thousands of digital files drawn from aerial views taken from internet satellite images, Anthropocene by David Thomas Smith reflects upon the complex structures that make up the centres of global capitalism, transforming the aerial landscapes of sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture information and excess.
Thousands of seemingly insignificant coded pieces of information are sown together like knots in a rug to reveal a grander spectacle. This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers.
This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the global order of things.
David Thomas Smith is a Dublin based, Irish artist who is a graduate of the University of Wales, Newport, in Documentary Photography. Smith’s works have been exhibited around the world, they have also appeared in a diverse number of publications from Esquire, Wired Magazine and The Huffington Post.
Images courtesy of David Thomas Smith
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