Richard Misrach: Border Cantos

An ongoing series exploring the abstracted pattern of an edgeless ocean surface, and the gestures and expressions of bathers adrift in the water.

Photographed from a distant, raised vantage point, Misrach’s images pose the mote-sized human figure against a looming and abstract pattern of sand and ocean waves, exploring the tension between control and release.

Photographed over several years from an unchanging vantage point, the series offers a meditation on the light, color, and atmosphere which transcend a fixed and familiar view.

The artist’s first digitally photographed series offers an homage to the analog photographic negative. Switching positive and negative along the color spectrum, Misrach transforms the natural landscape in extreme and fascinating ways.