A sequence of images taken over the course of two summers in California by photographer, artist and educator, Blake Masi. At present primarily based within the San Francisco Bay Space, Masi’s work focuses on environments formed by human methods and considers how these areas replicate the psychological and cultural situations of a post-digital era. “Camp” is an ongoing mission that captures Masi’s time working at a camp within the Northern Sierra area. Although surrounded by wilderness, cabins have been constructed amongst bushes and trails minimize into the land. Right here day by day life is structured round shared labour and communal routines. Telephones usually are not permitted, creating a sense of current barely exterior up to date time:
“These images think about how people inhabit designed environments and depart traces of themselves inside them. On the camp, day by day routines together with play, labor, and interpersonal relationships mark the area, simply because the construction of the place shapes those that transfer by it. The camp turns into a short lived world constructed by collective participation, the place human psychology impresses itself upon the panorama. On this setting, the stress between the factitious and the pure is negotiated and lived every day.”
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