Space Station (Falls Said to be the Largest in the Known World So Far) 1999

Landon Mackenzie, born in 1954, paints imagined landscapes that explore the intersection of personal memory and cartography. In "Space Station (Falls Said to be the Largest in the Known World So Far)", the artist's abstract style merges celestial and terrestrial mapping. Mackenzie's works often play with the conventions of landscape art, offering instead abstracted geographies marked by personal and cultural histories. The night-sky palette, combined with star-like markings, evokes a sense of cosmic vastness. Mackenzie’s layering of images alludes to the complexities and multiple perspectives inherent in both memory and map-making. The superimposition of imagined, abstract forms onto familiar cartographic outlines challenges our sense of place and belonging. Does the artwork suggest a dream-like world or a commentary on human attempts to chart and control our environment? The combination of spatial and emotional experience gives a sense of endless reach combined with a simultaneous sensation of intimate closeness.