On The Grid
On The Grid was a collaborative photography and mapping project with photographer Adam Ryder. This project explored the landscape immediately surrounding high-tension electric transmission lines in Rhode Island. We spend several days walking along various sites of this arterial infrastructure. Sites were chosen through surveying publicly available aerial photographs and land use maps, and all photos were geotagged with handheld GPS units. In combining the rigid technological process of digital mapping with the subjective practice of landscape photography, this project presents Rhode Island as a collection of differentiated spaces that, though seemingly isolated, are networked.
On The Grid was funded by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and presented at Stairwell Gallery in Providence, RI.
More information and photo galleries are available at the official website, powerlinesproject.com.
