NEW LENSES: Experimental Capture and Release

After doing art history research and hunting on Google Maps, I identified the real life locations that inspired iconic Impressionist landscape paintings by the likes of Van Gogh, Monet, and Pissarro.

The museum-visitor relationship often warps my relationship to viewing art, making me forget that I exist in the same universe as these real people who produced these paintings and existed in spaces that still stand. Paintings of the era are also very glossy and picturesque and taken from such obscure angles, whereas the Google Maps counterparts of the exact same spaces depict them as far more mundane, plain, and even touristy.