Lowell Nickel, Off w/the Gloves, 2020, Digital composition
These artistic investigations look into the fashioning of our own human footprint as artifacts.
This heterogeneous art-making approach can be associated with what has recently been labeled as the “Anthropocene”. The term Anthropocene or Holocene Epoch begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on earth's geology and ecosystems.
The basic concept of these art projects can be strengthened by a perceptible model of geologically human disposed materials as stratifications. Over time, as the weathering forces of nature serve to liberate all human creations… these decomposed remains might resemble just another strange abstracted strata upon a future landscape… guess that makes me a landscape artist.
Lowell Nickel, Harbor Sea Bed, 2016, Mixed media installation, from the flotsam series.
Klaus Gallery Marymount University
Lowell Nickel, Harbor Cat Scan, Digital composition, 24'x36'