Break Boundary II — Jenee Mateer

Lemonlime

Red Buoy

Atomic Tagerine

Orange Peal

Blue Ridge

Salt Pond Green

Amethyst Edge

Navajo

Midnight Blue

Creation

Umbered Orange

Ink Cloud

Polaroid Sunset

Twighlight Lake

Vermillion

Mustard Sky

BREAKD BOUNDARY II: THE SKY IS LEMONLIME (2015)

This body of work is a continuation of the Break Boundary series where I started to push the boundary between photography and painting, between the natural and the unnatural. These are a series of manipulated landscapes, mostly trees bordering lakes in New York and Michigan and a salt pond in Delaware. The tops of the trees reminded me of washes of watercolor on paper. So I started experimenting with using the computer to create a palette of color that is both part of the ‘natural’ image and not, using layers and blending to push the latent color of the images to the extreme.

This series is not only about pushing the boundaries of language and discipline but also about altering the landscape, re-mapping the terrain and choosing a new path. It’s about the subtle shift we experience both psychologically and emotionally in relation to our environment as our perception of where we are and who we are changes over time.