Wretched and Paramount (2014-2016)

(Extreme Landscapes Series; Google study of Cook County Jail in Chicago) 

Wretched and Paramount is a series of virtual photographs in which Gaspar uses Google Earth to tour the largest jail in the country, Cook County Jail, capturing a simultaneous visibility and invisibility. While some of the 3-D mapping renders the architecture visible, the images reveal what is left out in the modeling algorithm, an ambiguity and erasure paralleling America’s relationship to over-incarceration.

Wretched and Paramount (Top row: I, II, III; Bottom Row: IV, V, VI)
2014-16
Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
27 1/2" x 39 1/4"

Sourced from Google Earth