Photographs of Mirrors on Easels that Look Like Paintings
Indianapolis-born and New York City-based photographer Daniel Kukla
spent last March living in Joshua Tree National Park in southern
California as part of an artist’s residency. While hiking and driving,
he would catch glimpses of the border where the Sonoran Desert met the
high Mojave. In the ecological sciences, the border space created by the
meeting of distinct ecosystems is referred to as the edge effect. To
document this unique confluence of terrains, Kukla took a large mirror
and painter’s easel into the wilderness and captured opposing elements
within the environment. Using a single visual plane, this series of
images unifies the play of temporal phenomena, contrasts of color and
texture, and natural interactions of the environment itself.
His photo project has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Geographic and many more.
