CheckYourSurroundings

Artist Statement

Whitney Stolich

 

Check Your Surroundings is a series of color images with three different size images: 48x30, 48x26, 70x16 and has 21 images total in the series.  These were taken with a digital camera of the back- up camera inside the car with different vehicles.  I found many different ways to engage the car in reverse to shot the back-up camera while the hatch of the car is open and in different angles.

 

This project is about sorting one camera image with another and re-eaxaming space. The pictures depicts rural and urban spaces amongst Los Angeles’s vast urban sprawl .  There are pictures of pictures of control panels, and pictures of epic sceneries.  This is certainly a “place” you should “check your surroundings.”  The views are strange and different yet familiar.  And the surroundings are new yet not extraordinary.   This image is familiar yet new and never seen before. Check your Surroundings takes us to the beach and to the urban curb for fruit in Venice.  It goes in the back roads of Topanga and sees the skyline of Monterey.    Each image is unique and defines rural and urban space in its own way.