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Aerial View, Dune Erosion, South of Holland State Park
Aerial View, Dune Erosion, South of Holland State Park
Aerial View, Dune Erosion, South of Holland State Park
Photograph and Ditital Image © Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Not for reproduction or publication.
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Object number2003.4.13

Aerial View, Dune Erosion, South of Holland State Park

Artist (American, 1946-)
Date1983, printed 1984
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 12 3/8 × 15 3/4 in. (31.4 × 40 cm)
sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Exhibition History"Perspectives on Place: Artists’ Visions of Michigan's Land and Lakes," KIA Nay Gallery (June 6 - Sept. 7, 2008). Label TextGary Cialdella has been particularly intrigued by the different perspective of viewing the Lake Michigan coastline from the air. From a helicopter, he discovered the land's graphic qualities-strong blocks of color, organic outlines and natural textures. "It's not at all like that on the ground." An aerial view reveals a pattern of parallel walkways to summer beach homes. The impact of erosion's forces on the shoreline's contours is clearly visible from the air. Summer bathers dot the warm, sandy shallows. Cialdella shows Michigan as "an approachable landscape, where a mix of natural beauty and human interventions are on a scale that suits my aesthetic temperament." The Michigan Shoreline Project, 1982-84, completed in collaboration with photographer Christopher Schneiter, documented the changing environment bordering Lake Michigan, which shapes our state's geography, climate and culture.

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