Michael Boonstra's creative practice includes elements of drawing, sculpture, installation, and photography. Through these channels he explores our perception of the landscape and our changing relationship to scale and viewpoint. Aerial imagery, whether actual or invented, is often a component of Boonstra's recent work as he examines our increasing familiarity with satellite imagery, digital mapping, and the view out of airplane windows.
Camera obscura-based installations are also a major component of Boonstra's creative endeavors. These site-specific works function as interfaces between interior and exterior spaces. The colors, movement, and environmental phenomena evident in exterior spaces are absorbed and projected in real-time multiplicity altering the viewer's experience of the familiar.
Boonstra's work has recently been exhibited at Pacific University (Forest Grove, OR), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), Willamette University (Salem, OR), and been featured in Art New England and the Eugene Weekly.
Camera obscura-based installations are also a major component of Boonstra's creative endeavors. These site-specific works function as interfaces between interior and exterior spaces. The colors, movement, and environmental phenomena evident in exterior spaces are absorbed and projected in real-time multiplicity altering the viewer's experience of the familiar.
Boonstra's work has recently been exhibited at Pacific University (Forest Grove, OR), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), Willamette University (Salem, OR), and been featured in Art New England and the Eugene Weekly.
