Matthew Brandt creates his work using physical elements from the depicted subject. Inspired by landscape photography of the American West and alternative photograph processes developed during photography’s infancy in the mid-nineteenth century—the artist revives traditional photographic techniques through various production processes. Whether soaking prints in water from the depicted lake, printing on paper made from the subject tree, or even using a pigment created from the subject, Brandt blurs the line between the photograph and the photographed.
