Jason DeMarte Tangential is a series of photographic collages that feature intricately composed flora and fauna, particularly birds, alongside plastic detritus such as caps, bags, and candy. DeMarte’s surreal scenes show natural environments with trees and birds supplemented with manufactured objects such as candies, plastic toys, and sweets, adding a layer of artificiality to the landscape. Jason DeMarte also uses digital techniques, creating hyper-realistic and unearthly light, sharpness and depth of field.
Through this unique process, DeMarte creates surreal allegories that reflect a postdystopian landscape while retaining the echoes of a past marked by depravity. The large-scale prints, which exhibit unreal detail, result from a commercial studio approach to the separate photographic elements collaged together.
DeMarte’s work engages with complex themes, such as truth, consumption, visual gluttony, and waste, while…