THE END OF GEOGRAPHY from Tatiana Plakhova on Vimeo.

Tatiana Plakhova’s work visualizes vast fields of vectors projected onto landscapes, urban formations, and the sea. Plakhova’s “The End of Geography” is the latest entry in her series of “Complexity Graphics,” in which she constructs entire hybrid worlds, fictional sea creatures, and everything in between, solely through a deft application of highly articulated, seemingly algorithmically-determined clusters of lines. More after the jump!

‘The End of Geography’ is a series of dreamscapes weaved from webs of vector lines and nodes. The results are a mix of peculiarly anachronistic images and cybernetics filtered through a nautically-tinged aesthetic, where scintilla of light and matter assume the size of mountains, symmetrically patterns are embedded within the tides of the ocean, and compositions of densely arrayed geometries map the physical world.

“NOOSPHERE” similarly plays with scale and vector, overlaying abstracted revelry onto landmarks of human achievement. Seen from her picturesque vantage points, Plakhova’s subjects, which include Machu Picchu as well as medieval Islamic military bastions and the remnants of the Greco-centric world, dominate the composition, amorphous bodies of lines and nodes swelling centrifugally to encompass the heritage sites.

It’s easy to imagine Plakhova’s vector fields spanning the entirety of the earth’s geographic parameters–and beyond–to the point that the hubris of civilization and the expanse of natural topography are pointedly dwarfed by the networks which sustain our perception of them.

by Samuel Medina

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