Poly-Peaks

Standing somewhere high, naming what you can see.

Poly-Peaks reconstructs the view from a single point on the earth: which summits are visible from there, where each one falls across the horizon, and how far away it stands. The result is a panorama that is not a photograph but a survey — the same view a person gets on a clear day, with the names still attached.

Layers can be peeled back to the bare horizon line, or built up through hillshade and relief until the distance reads as depth. The far ridges are genuinely far; the rhythm of the skyline is the one that place actually has.

Every peak here is a real peak, at a real bearing, at a real distance. The drawing is procedural; the geography is not invented.

Works from this series are in production, and will appear here as they are finished.