Zander olsen biography examples

Zander Olsen’s ongoing project Tree, Line (2004-) at: https://www.zanderolsen.com/Tree_Line.html is conceptually-driven with a style bearing traits of Georges Rousse, Noémie Goudal with Studies on Perspective I (2014) and notably John Pfahl with Australian Pines, Fort DeSoto, Florida (1977).

The work on show on his website is very clever and well executed. The fact it is made solely in forests has implications that Olsen’s Tree, Line might be environmentally concerned although he doesn’t specify this.

Looking more closely at the concept utilised by Olsen, I can see the camera had to be in a particular position for the pleasing illusion to work, which he specifies.

Olsen’s illusion differs from Rousse’s oeuvre and Goudal’s Studies on Perspective I (2014) in that the illusion also brings interplay the horizon which helps to set it much more in the ‘real’ landscape. It expands upon Pfahls’s Australian Pines, Fort DeSoto, Florida (19