Pivot
[Image: From "Cropped" by Gerco de Ruijter; view larger].
The "Grid Corrections" of Gerco de Ruijter, as seen in the previous post, reminded me of de Ruijter's earlier project, "Cropped," previously seen here back in 2012.
[Image: From "Cropped" by Gerco de Ruijter; view larger].
The images seen here are all satellite views of pivot irrigation systems, taken from Google Earth and cleaned up by de Ruijter for display and printing.
[Images: From "Cropped" by Gerco de Ruijter; view larger].
The resulting textures look like terrestrial LPs disintegrating into the landscape, or vast alien engravings slowly being consumed by sand?
[Image: From "Cropped" by Gerco de Ruijter; view larger].
?and they are, at times, frankly so beautiful that it's almost hard to believe these landscapes were not deliberately created for their aesthetic effects.
[Image: From "Cropped" by Gerco de Ruijter; view larger].
Granted, de Ruijter has color-corrected these satellite shots and pushed the saturation, but as potential gardens of pure color and hue, the original pivotscapes are themselves already quite extraordinary.
[Image: From "Cropped" by Gerco de Ruijter; view larger].
For a few more examples of these?posted at a much-larger, eye-popping size?click through to the Washington Post or consider watching the original film, called "Crops," here on BLDGBLOG.
[Images: From "Cropped" ...
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