Since 2007, Baltimore-based artist and educator Alexander Heilner has been hiring small planes to aid in the exploration and documentation of his interest in the way infrastructure and human elements interact from an aerial perspective. “As the child of an airline employee,” he says “I clocked countless hours with my face pressed against the windows of various aircraft, or scrutinizing maps of my next destination.” This long-standing fascination with man’s “unintentional mark-making”, as he calls it, has translated into a collection of colorful geometric photographs, taken everywhere from Florida and Nevada to Dubai and Norway. The images have a strong graphic quality, focusing on the simplicity of color and linear elements in man-modified landscapes.
Text by Alexis Lodsun
