His work excavates the known world in search of the sublime and presents novel visual constructions which reveal the intricacies and nuances of human perception. Whitcraft seeks not to replicate the natural world, but to supplement it by leveraging the infinite possibilities of light, alternative geometries and physical properties afforded by the digital realm.
Photography works as a kind of analog to the eye, however the camera has a much keener attention span and doesn’t have the culturally attuned filter that our human mind has developed. The photographs are recast with horizon lines that are circular rather than linear
These photographs exploit the unique capabilities of the camera to expand on blatant phenomena which are normally overlooked. Each work represents a singular colorscape - specific to a time and place and, due to the ever changing atmospheric and environmental conditions, can never be exactly reproduced again.
In Looking at the Sky, he combines video, photography and custom software to explore abstractions of natural landscapes, sky and sea – revealing a unique mode of native technological creativity.
The video pieces and large scale colorfield works explore a new mode of working with landscape. The works propose a world that operates with different physics, impossible geometries and alternate geo- planetary arrangements. Working with parameters collaboratively created by Whitcraft and a General Adversarial Network (GAN), the results transfigure current physical principles to produce landscape photographs with spherically arranged horizons and mesmerizing video seascapes.
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Looking at the Sky
These works re-imagine the traditionally configured landscape image by mapping the horizontal horizon line which normally divides the sea, sky and land onto a circular vector, letting the original color and gradients from the image remain, but presenting them with an additional geometry.
Suppléments Métaphysiques, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 60 x 60 inches, 1/1.
Parler à Léon Mort, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 48 x 48 inches, 1/1.
Nord-ouest Pacifique, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 36 x 36 inches, 1/1.
The Altogether Now II, 2022. Color Photograph on dibond panel. 48 x 48 inches, 1/1.
Noorderlicht, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 48 x 48 inches, 1/1.
Tonnerre Est, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 48 x 48 inches, 1/1.
La Calamité, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 36 x 36 inches, 1/1.
Terre de Médiation Falaise, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 36 x 36 inches, 1/1.
Noorderlicht Deux, 2022. Color photograph on dibond panel. 48 x 48 inches, 1/1.
Below: Installation views, Looking at the Sky, 2023, Solo Exhibition at Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, California.
Series Chromatikó Topío
Monuments of earth-based sky and landscape in color and gradient. Compiled from video stills and photographs.
Coucher le Soleil dans le Danube, 2022. 48 x 48 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Voir Dans le Futur, 2022. 48 x 48 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, 2022. 48 x 48 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
L'Ukraine Espoir, 2022. 48 x 48 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Marcher Sur le Danube, 2022. 48 x 48 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Monumenta Encinal del Temescal I, 2022. 60 x 60 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Monumenta Encinal del Temescal II, 2022. 60 x 60 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Monumenta Encinal del Temescal III, 2022. 60 x 60 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Monumenta Encinal del Temescal IV, 2022. 60 x 60 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
Monumenta Encinal del Temescal V, 2022. 60 x 60 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.
La Douleur Exquise, 2021. 60 x 60 Inches, Color photograph, 1/1.