« For more than twenty years, David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photographs of environmentally impacted landscapes. In the multi-chaptered series Black Maps, Maisel's aerial images, printed at a scale of up to 48"x96", become sublime meditations on what the curator Anne Tucker has termed the "engaging duality between beauty and repulsion."

In Maisel's recent project, The Library of Dust, he continues to investigate a zone bordered by aesthetics and ethics, though by considering wholly different subject matter on a completely different scale. The Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of a patient from a state psychiatric hospital. The Library of Dust was featured in the Beijing Off-Biennial, Fall 2005. »

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