Tara McDermott

Title: PURE: Abstract Photos of Industrial Things

About the Photos:

While travelling throughout the rural Northwest, I’ve been photographing the agricultural infrastructure tucked amongst the farming landscape. I’m drawn to the simple shapes, from ubiquitous plastic water tanks, large tarped haystacks awaiting export, to centralized grain silos visible from miles away due to their grandiose scale. There’s beauty in their utilitarian function. It became oddly satisfying abstracting these vernacular objects, machinery, and architecture. I feel like I’m looking at images of children’s toys – basic shapes and primary colors – but created for an adult’s sensibility.