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In Adobe Photoshop, the Background Layer is the default layer upon opening up the application; it is initially locked and protected, and alterations cannot be applied to it. A photographer is often a background layer to how we understand reality. An image can be static or erratic, demonstrative of a place or a person. Each image becomes a new layer of meditation of our reality. Architecture and other shapes, systems, and arrangements build upon these fundamental or foundational layers.

Today, we live in a hyper-saturated, hyper-capitalistic society, in which it is often difficult to discern what is real, what is true, and what is honest. Schaedel’s photographs incorporate a consistent sense of hollowness, dry humor, and various techniques to play with optics and undermine one’s understanding and relationship to images. Collectively, we walk and drive past dozens of physical advertisements from dawn to dusk, we doomscroll for hours upon hours, and we get targeted with and by digital…

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In Adobe Photoshop, the Background Layer is the default layer upon opening up the application; it is initially locked and protected, and alterations cannot be applied to it. A photographer is often a background layer to how we understand reality. An image can be static or erratic, demonstrative of a place or a person. Each image becomes a new layer of meditation of our reality. Architecture and other shapes, systems, and arrangements build upon these fundamental or foundational layers.

Today, we live in a hyper-saturated, hyper-capitalistic society, in which it is often difficult to discern what is real, what is true, and what is honest. Schaedel’s photographs incorporate a consistent sense of hollowness, dry humor, and various techniques to play with optics and undermine one’s understanding and relationship to images. Collectively, we walk and drive past dozens of physical advertisements from dawn to dusk, we doomscroll for hours upon hours, and we get targeted with and by digital…

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