I have found myself coming back to the Human/Nature exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and mostly to one image by Bart Michiel made in the present-day of the World War I battlefields near his home in Belgium.
The images have been described as very subtle by the art critic Alice Thorson. Michiel is quoted as he seeks out “happenstance traces and features on the land that refer metaphorically to combat“. In the case of one photo, the tractor tracks cut through a field that “evoke the tanks that rolled through the area during the battle of Verdun”. Yep, I agree, that is subtle.
