Richard John Seymour

Landsat Works - 2021/2

Five years in its gestation, Seymour spent Covid re-examining the streams of imagery beamed down from the satellite Landsat 8, which, since its launch in 2013, has proved a vital tool enabling mineral prospectors, amongst others, to interpret the Earth’s surface in unprecedented detail, most particularly its data in non-visible bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. The raw images are B&W and Seymour has rigorously applied RGB to these non-visible frequencies, co-opting conventional false-colour imaging techniques to transform this public domain data into glorious large-scale tapestries that aim to highlight the invisible, remind us of omnipresent control of the ‘technological gaze’ above us and reiterate the breathtaking beauty and variety of the planet’s landscape.

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