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Tapestries, scarves, bandanas, wild rags and other textile-based work incorporating the post-landscape photographic collages of Marfa, TX-based artist Daniel Chamberlin.
Ecstatic Camouflage Textiles: Big Bend Opuntia
Opuntia 1. Cattail Falls , BBNP. Far West Texas
54″ x 36″, linen-cotton canvas
Opuntia 1. Mule Ears, BBNP. Far West Texas
40″ x 36″, cotton silk
Ecstatic Camouflage: Chilicote Springs
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Canopy 1. Chilicote Springs, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas
66″ x 38″ inkjet print
Canopy 2. Chilicote Springs, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas
38″ x 50″ inkjet print
Blanton Forest — Harlan County, Kentucky — 22 March 2012
Images from a trip to Blanton Forest in Southeastern Kentucky, alleged to be the “largest old growth forest in the Commonwealth.”
From Old Growth in the East:
Within a preserve that in mid-2000 totaled 3055 acres, 2239 acres of little disturbed forest, encompassing an entire side of Pine Mountain. Communities include hemlock-mixed mesophytic, oak-pine, Appalachian oak (White Oak and Chestnut Oak most common but other species contributing), mountain bogs, cliffs, rock overhangs, and mountain streams. Pitch Pine dominates some areas; Shortleaf Pine and Virginia Pine are also present. The occurrence of pines is coincident with the driest forest at the summit. American Chestnut was once an important component but it all died in the 1930s and 1940s from blight. Traces of an old homestead can be seen at the mountain’s base, one part of the forest apparently underwent limited logging, cattle may have grazed a section, and someone tried to cut an off-road vehicle trail in a corner of the tract; but these activities did little noticeable damage.
Ecstatic Camouflage at Marfa Book Company on 9 March 2012
Friday, March 9th, 6 – 8 PM @ Marfa Book Company
Exhibition: Marfa artist and photographer Daniel Chamberlin will be presenting new works in his “Ecstatic Camouflage” series for a brief, three day show that coincides with Tonalism, an all night ambient film and music event presented by dublab and El Cosmico. (Tonalism features a new, temporary installation by Adam Bork, live projections by CINEMARFA, and music by Sun Araw and J D Emmanuel, and more.)
Click here for the full press release from Marfa Book Co., or read on below.
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The Marfa Book Company will host an exhibition of new works by Marfa-based artist Daniel Chamberlin entitled “Ecstatic Camouflage” this weekend, March 9 – 11, with an opening for the artist on Friday, March 9th from 6 – 8 pm.
According to the artist, “Ecstatic Camouflage is an explicitly psychedelic post-landscape photography.” In deed, these photographs make a break with tradition and do not call to mind the work of Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Robert Glenn Ketchum, or Richard Misrach, though, ostensibly, they share the same subject. The break may at first seem technical, a consequence of new technologies for manipulating images, but on further study, it becomes evident that it’s something else. For Chamberlin, that word is psychedelic or shamanistic.
“It is a post-landscape photography that explodes anthropocentric notions of perspective by way of repetition and rotation, an organic visual drone. It is an attempt at revealing my communion with the so-called “plant mind” of shamanistic lore.”
Several of the photographs in “Ecstatic Camouflage” were taken locally, in the Chisos Basin, and the Davis Mountains. Viewers may not immediately recognize these places however, and not just because the artist avoids iconic, monumental treatments for his subjects. In fact, the photographs resemble mandalas or yantras rather than icons or monuments. Curiously, his technique, involving minimal post-camera manipulation, does not hide the changes he makes, but demonstrates them openly. In the kaleidoscopic image that results from his repetitions and rotations, horizon lines vanish; trees and flowers, divide or merge; water appears throughout the surface; and the sky turns inward.
For his exhibition at the Marfa Book Company, Chamberlin chose ten pieces from an archive of hundreds of raw photographs taken in the Southwestern and South Central United States. The pieces selected are ink jet prints on canvas and range in size from three by four, to four by five feet in dimension.
Daniel Chamberlin was born in Indiana, and lived for twelve years in Los Angeles before moving to Marfa. He was a contributing editor to Arthur Magazine. He is a nationally registered EMT and currently works for Marfa EMS.
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Ecstatic Camouflage: Appalachian Old Growth 2
Albright Grove, Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
23 October 2011 – 11:28:34
24″ x 16″ giclee print on canvas
Ecstatic Camouflage: Appalachian Old Growth
Albright Grove, Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
23 October 2011 – 12:09:05
24″ x 24″ giclee print on canvas
Albright Grove, Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
23 October 2011 – 11:41:01
24″ x 24″ giclee print on canvas
Ecstatic Camouflage: Lichens of the Chisos and Davis Mountains
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15 Apple Magicians by Seven Feathers Rainwater
15 Apple Magicians
by Seven Feathers Rainwater
released 08 January 2011
Artwork by Daniel Chamberlin. Written, recorded, and mixed by Seven
Feathers Rainwater. Mastered by Michael Biggs. Contributing Musicians:
Stag Hare, Andy Cvar, & Parker Yates.
Seven Feathers Rainwater: Seth Pulver, Nate Simonsen, Taylor Christensen.
Digital: http://sevenfeathersrainwater.bandcamp.com/album/15-apple-magicians
Vinyl: http://site.moondialrecords.com/
