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December 10, 2010
Erik Johnson's Borderlands also explores the edges where the forces of nature encounter the urban environment.
Erik Johnson, Untitled (tarp) from the series Borderlands, 2004
This is a series of lush, almost surreal large-format images of urban and near urban areas that have largely been abandoned to nature--greenbelts of undeveloped patches of weeds and forest. Untitled (Tarp) shows the remains of a white tarp against an empty field, the plastic ripped to wispy shreds by the wind and rain, their shapes echoing those of the fennel plants in the background.
Johnson is an assistant professor of photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Borderlands was published by Twin Palms Publishers in 2005.
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