Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

These breath­tak­ing aer­ial pho­tographs are part of David Maisel’s Terminal Mirage project. Here’s a lit­tle back­ground from the site:

In his project Terminal Mirage, Maisel inten­tion­ally obscures the func­tion, loca­tion, scale, and con­di­tion of his sub­ject. No title names the Great Salt Lake or its envi­rons as his sub­ject. His images all share exquis­ite abstract col­orations and design. A few pic­tures are obvi­ously land­scapes. Others are so lack­ing in items that iden­tify scale they might be images of dete­ri­o­rat­ing walls or macro pho­tographs of lab­o­ra­tory dishes. As he intends, we are first engaged by the beauty that dances across these large scale prints. Then myr­iad ques­tions arise: Who or what cre­ated what we see in these views? The answers are nei­ther eas­ily explained nor uni­ver­sally con­firmed, and the answers are less inter­est­ing to Maisel than the ques­tions and dis­cus­sions the pic­tures might evoke. (By Anne Wilkes Tucker (excerpted from David Maisel: Terminal Mirage cat­a­logue; pub­lished 2005; ISBN 1−59005−120−3)

via But Does it Float