2022/06/10

Everest Pipkin Considers Anticipatory Forest Fossils

“Trained on images of the forest in knowing anticipation of its loss, the fossil here precedes the body, making a shape a felled tree can fall into.”
– Software artist and writer Everest Pipkin, musing on Ben Moren’s speculative photography project Reference Ecosystem: Lost 40 (2021). Moren generated imagery using a GAN trained on photographs of Lost 40, Northern Minnesota’s largest remaining old-growth white pine-red pine forest.
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