Landscape: Loyola University Maryland Humanities Symposium Brand

The image formed from compositing over a dozen stock images in Adobe Photoshop into a single landscape of colliding climates. No artificial intelligence needed.

The 2022 symposium text by Usual Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness – and the work of keynote speaker Jeff Vandermeer inspired the image.

Their works and the keynote speech contend with the relevant real-world themes of climate and ecology through science fiction.

The image formed from compositing over a dozen stock images in Adobe Photoshop into a single landscape of colliding climates. No artificial intelligence needed.

The 2022 symposium text by Usual Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness – and the work of keynote speaker Jeff Vandermeer inspired the image.

Their works and the keynote speech contend with the relevant real-world themes of climate and ecology through science fiction.