James Westwater's land art is found or imagined. For example, Weiche Maschine (soft machine) is a PowerPoint presentation about a mysterious object discovered in North Africa during World War II, an Arduino-driven animatronic, video stills of the animatronic traveling the world and a 1:35 scale military diorama. Interiors and Ruins employs antique and vintage postcards to evoke spaces of introspection, witness or disaster. Photographs taken in Berlin, Dublin, Reykjavík and elsewhere identify found marks, objects or nature as land art.


Weiche Maschine in Paris, video still, 2013
Weiche Maschine in Paris, video still, 2013
Untitled (Interiors and Ruins), acrylic on antique photographic postcard, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 2018
Untitled (Interiors and Ruins), acrylic on antique photographic postcard, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 2018
Untitled (Berlin), digital image, 2011
Untitled (Berlin), digital image, 2011
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Weiche Maschine in Paris, video still, 2013
Weiche Maschine in Paris, video still, 2013
Untitled (Interiors and Ruins), acrylic on antique photographic postcard, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 2018
Untitled (Interiors and Ruins), acrylic on antique photographic postcard, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 2018
Untitled (Berlin), digital image, 2011
Untitled (Berlin), digital image, 2011
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