In my work, I try to make pictures out of phenomenon of perception that cannot be directly photographed. Our perception starts with the act of physical seeing. This information of the eye is transferred to the brain, where it is processed, filtered and interpreted, before being ‘saved‘ as memory. By the means of digital image processing, I try to reconstruct this personal impression or vision of a place into an apparently normal or straight picture, so that it will be perceptible by the spectator as directly as possible. -- Lukas Roth
The view of a landscape, or any space, provides the viewer with an extensive image of a particular spatial condition and the occurrences that take place within it. Once the viewer decides to make use of a camera to capture a moment too precious to be left undocumented, one will find upon viewing the resulting photograph that the formatting and perspective differ significantly from what is seen. This difference between what we see and what can be captured with a camera, is the subject of Lukas RothÂ’s series, "Re-Construction."
In order for Roth to create his photographs, he takes hundreds of digital pictures of one location or subject. He then creates an image that incorporates various elements from the hundreds of digital images, seamlessly recomposing them in a constructed image that more closely resembles what was seen by the naked eye. Roth creates idealized spatial concepts that rely on radically manipulating perspectives, axes, sizes and proportions. It is in the process of viewing that the viewer may unzip Roth‘s bag of tricks, tracking down all of the artist‘s visible computer-graphical manipulations become a game of obsessive viewing.
