Skyline Drive is a road that stretches for 105 miles in the Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In continuing interest in the relationship between technology and nature (that of perfecting/emulating), as a method of discovering space and body, the road is isolated from topographical maps through tedious Photoshop erasure. Through this method (captured in an hour long video), the remanence reinforces the original engineering intention of the road to mirror the ridge line of the mountains. In other words, the road gives the valley mountains the geographical definition that they otherwise lacked previous to the roads construction. This process creates a virtual metaphor for the drive and its methodological/meditative qualities.
The piece exists as a diptych consisting of a screen recording of the digital editing of the National Registry's maps and a print of the finished extracted road map.
