Photographer Jason Gowans happened upon a problem while shooting landscapes: "I stumbled into classic difficulties that occur when representing a space with multiple perspectives. I would go out into the landscape, be overwhelmed, come back into the city, and be confronted with images that were decidedly underwhelming. They conveyed none of the concepts I was interested in once they were bound to a rectilinear plane."
Undeterred, Gowans simply added another dimension to his work. Inspired by Western movie sets, Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale and particularly Robert Smithson’s Non-Sites, Gowans approached landscapes as a sculpture project. To create the physical objects, he built maquettes of found negatives, his own photos, and images from the internet. In "Five Landscape Modes," he pieces together the fragments to show multiple images, angles, and shadows.