A frame of reference. A frame of mind. To frame a house, to frame an argument, or to frame a shot – the act of framing is a physical, a cognitive, and a pictorial function.

Landscapes are framed in multiple ways – from physical structures as walls, fences, and highways, to the invisible demarcations of borders, zoning boundaries, and property lines, to the delimitations that exist solely in cultural references and individual memories. In framing “in”, something is always left out, and in framing “out,” that which is left in becomes an irrevocable part of that temporary milieu.          

Landscape Frame is a 10’ x 7’ steel frame that rotates 360° around its central axis. Viewers are invited to turn the structure and thus create new views of the landscape within the frame, while simultaneously confronting the frame within the landscape. With its fixed central axis located on a mesa at the foot of the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, Landscape Frame points to various uses of landscape in the environs surrounding the installation.