Reality is disarrayed in specific images and iconic landscapes. There is an idea when you hear a word like park. An image grows; perhaps it blooms green in your mind with standing trees, peaks and pillars of stone and bark. Or maybe not? Perhaps a different place, a person, a picnic, a panoramic. These details are of vernacular intrigue to the imagery of Thomas Albdorf’s General View on display currently at New York’s Deli Gallery. Here in General View Albdorf has concocted a curious body of work. Arrangements of uncertain depths, a play on reality, the agrarian systems of the world inside these photographs are rogue. The alchemy of their mystery beguiles thoughts up a trail through mountaintops and fields of fleshy blurs and wonders profound in bogus validities.
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