Jenny Odell's Satellite Collections are interesting both within their compositions as well as uncommon perspective, it is not every day that you will get to view every single basketball court in Manhattan together and right from above. Odell’s Satellite Collections combine photos of swimming pools, nuclear cooling towers, basketball courts seen thru Google Maps.
" In all of my prints, I collect things that I've cut out from Google Satellite View-- parking lots, silos, landflls, waste ponds. The view from a satellite is not a human one, nor is it one we were ever really meant to see. But it is precisely from this inhuman point of view that we are able to read our own humanity, in all of its tiny, reliably repetitive marks upon the face of the earth. From this view, the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that read: people were here. "
A couple of Jenny Odell's amazing compositions of Google Satellite images.
" In all of my prints, I collect things that I've cut out from Google Satellite View-- parking lots, silos, landflls, waste ponds. The view from a satellite is not a human one, nor is it one we were ever really meant to see. But it is precisely from this inhuman point of view that we are able to read our own humanity, in all of its tiny, reliably repetitive marks upon the face of the earth. From this view, the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that read: people were here. "
A couple of Jenny Odell's amazing compositions of Google Satellite images.
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