This project is an unconventional diptych of two perspectives, downward and upward views near two sites of great historical significance in the Rochester, New York region.
The downward Genesee River Gorge image is adjacent to the world headquarters of the Eastman Kodak Company, the dominant photographic film manufacturer for over a century.
The upward image is of an unsettled sky over a park adjacent to the Great Embankment along the Erie Canal, with the canal enabling the settlement of the United States Midwest in the 1800's. The one-mile long embankment, the largest in the world, was created by raising the ground level by 70 feet to enable the canal to pass through the region.
The diptych is unconventional because both the images and the historical backstories behind the images are critical to understanding the project.
