James Welling (b. 1951)
—Dye sublimation print on aluminum —
In July 2015, the Brandywine River Museum of Art commissioned James Welling to create a site-specific installation that explored the intersection of art and the environment. He photographed several locations around the grounds of the museum; one of those photographs formed the basis of this color-driven sculpture. Working digitally, he took samples from the photograph and arranged them in a process known as gradient mapping. The resulting "map" is a seamless gradation of color representing bits of the chromatic spectrum captured from the original landscape image. The gradient map was then printed with a process in which inks are fused directly onto a metal plate. Mounted to a signpost, the metal print has been placed at the exact location where Welling took the original photograph. Through this work—which blurs the boundaries between photography and sculpture—Welling invites a closer examination of the changing colors of the Brandywine landscape throughout the year.| HM Number | HM21AZ |
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| Placed By | The Brandywine River Museum of Art |
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| Date Added | Thursday, August 31st, 2017 at 7:01pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 449264 N 4413559 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 39.87056667, -75.59325000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 39° 52.234', W 75° 35.595' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 39° 52' 14.04" N, 75° 35' 35.7" W |
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