Lost Lands | Brooks Salzwedel

Johansson projects presents Lost Lands by Brooks Salzwedel. This fresh body of graphite and mylar drawings continues Salzwedel’s investigation into the captured landscape. Confining the immense power of his forests to the strict limitations of industrial tins and boxes, Brooks evokes the imaginary boundaries of national and state parks. They are places we could, or could have once visited. And while the works appear to capture these mysterious landscapes, to freeze them in resin, like photographs or postcards from a weekend getaway, the natural world crystallizes with the passage of time. It grows. It refuses our binding, and is finally lost back to itself.