Isometric Projection (2015)

These photographs overlook a space that was once the capital of the Kingdom of Urartu, which later became part of Armenia, and now Turkey. The Biblical Mount Ararat, the site at which Noah’s Ark finally came to rest, lay within the boundaries of this Kingdom.  

In 1917 the entire city was destroyed in the Armenian genocide. The only structures still visible are the husks of four mosques, one of which is pictured and the outline of a grid of streets in the grass.

The elevated viewpoint mirrors broadcast images from the Gulf Wars filmed from cameras fixed to Patriot Missiles, Apache helicopters and more recently from Predator Drones. The isometric viewpoint also recalls camera angles used in the god-like perspectives of various computer games.