About The Work
Michael Massaia has always been fascinated by the similarities between movement of the sky and the movement of the ocean (the pull of tides and the pull of the atmosphere). In this work from the series, The Pull, the artist simply prints the images the way they appear on the ground glass of his 5 x 7 camera: inverted and backwards. Massaia finds it amazing how visually disorienting the landscape becomes. The ocean becomes a roiling “sky”—the pull of the ocean surrenders to the pull of the sky. As a result of the ocean being inverted, it takes on a completely new shape.
Courtesy of Clamp Art
About Michael Massaia
Photograph
1. Toned gelatin silver print with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 4-ply Crescent Natural White
2. Toned gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply museum board
This work is signed and numbered on label on verso.
About The Work
Michael Massaia has always been fascinated by the similarities between movement of the sky and the movement of the ocean (the pull of tides and the pull of the atmosphere). In this work from the series, The Pull, the artist simply prints the images the way they appear on the ground glass of his 5 x 7 camera: inverted and backwards. Massaia finds it amazing how visually disorienting the landscape becomes. The ocean becomes a roiling “sky”—the pull of the ocean surrenders to the pull of the sky. As a result of the ocean being inverted, it takes on a completely new shape.
Courtesy of Clamp Art
About Michael Massaia
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