Tia Factor

Tia Factor’s work references the history of traditional Western landscape painting, utilizing idyllic, romantic, and pastoral imagery alongside imagery derived from interviews with people living in neo-communal entities such as lifestyle, gated, and golf/leisure communities, most of which are situated in the wildland-urban interface (WUI).

The combination of these two sets of images creates connotative complexity, referencing: Manifest Destiny; utopian ideals of wilderness and luxury, leisure, excess, and exclusivity; and the looming chaos of the climate crisis.