Kris Davidson

Kris Davidson

Seattle, Washington

Artist working in photography and collage, collapsing past, present, and future while probing how technology mediates reality and fiction.

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Trinity by Kris Davidson Image: Edition of 1 + 1 AP. This image was made in 2019 at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, home to the world’s largest gypsum dunefield. Located approximately 50 to 60 miles (80 to 97 kilometers) from the Trinity Site—as the crow flies—the park lies about 85 miles (137 kilometers) away by road, typically a 1.5 to 2-hour drive. The image is intended to collapse the temporal distance between the present day and July 16, 1945—the date of the world’s first nuclear detonation at the Trinity Site. The figures in the frame are strangers, passing through the scene at a distance. The “bomb” was added later, drawn in oil crayon on a Hahnemühle 308 photo rag work print. That version was then professionally photographed by LightSource SF and re-composited in Photoshop to create the final artwork.
Edition of 1 + 1 AP. This image was made in 2019 at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, home to the world’s largest gypsum dunefield. Located approximately 50 to 60 miles (80 to 97 kilometers) from the Trinity Site—as the crow flies—the park lies about 85 miles (137 kilometers) away by road, typically a 1.5 to 2-hour drive. The image is intended to collapse the temporal distance between the present day and July 16, 1945—the date of the world’s first nuclear detonation at the Trinity Site. The figures in the frame are strangers, passing through the scene at a distance. The “bomb” was added later, drawn in oil crayon on a Hahnemühle 308 photo rag work print. That version was then professionally photographed by LightSource SF and re-composited in Photoshop to create the final artwork.
Trinity by Kris Davidson Image: Work print at LightSource
Trinity by Kris Davidson Image: Print in studio
  • Kris Davidson
  • Trinity, 2019
  • Mixed media: original photograph on Hahnemühle 308 photo rag, hand-drawn intervention in oil crayon, rephotographed and digitally recomposited
  • 66” (h) x 49.5” (v) with 2” inch border
  • Signature: No signature
  • Sold
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Edition of 1 + 1 AP. This image was made in 2019 at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, home to the world’s largest gypsum dunefield. Located approximately 50 to 60 miles (80 to 97 kilometers) from the Trinity Site—as the crow flies—the park lies about 85 miles (137 kilometers) away by road, typically a 1.5 to 2-hour drive.

The image is intended to collapse the temporal distance between the present day and July 16, 1945—the date of the world’s first nuclear detonation at the Trinity Site. The figures in the frame are strangers, passing through the scene at a distance.

The “bomb” was added later, drawn in oil crayon on a Hahnemühle 308 photo rag work print. That version was then professionally photographed by LightSource SF and re-composited in Photoshop to create the final artwork. Base photograph made with a medium format digital camera.

  • Subject Matter: Edition of 1 + 1 AP, created at White Sands National Park in 2019, this work collapses the present with the 1945 Trinity test through a hand-drawn “bomb” re-photographed and digitally composited.
  • Collections: Beneath a Paper Moon

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