Dave first described the work of Ross Racine to me when he saw it at Like the Spice Gallery in Williamsburg. Naturally, descriptions of aerial images of dream suburbs piqued my interest, but the lack of a name and the closing of the show kept me from seeing them. Then one day, browsing the internet (I hate the term browsing for some reason, and I think it may have been on Ben's blog), I found Ross's work!
With names like "Goldenwood Shores" and "Beachview Buffs", his images immediately fulfill my love for traveling via Google Earth and obsession with maps and aerial images. Drawn freehand into the computer, without the use of of photos or scans, his work evokes the surrealness of real life American suburbia. Houses clustered into innocent looking cloud formations, crazy arrangments of streets and cul-de-sacs, or masses of concentric arcs, seem as detached from a larger reality as real suburbs seem to be. Further, the work seems especially appropriate during this time of soul searching for the battered American Dream.
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