Capturing the Feral Earth: Michael Lundgren's Psychedelic Landscape Photography
Michael Lundgren's book 'Glass Mountain' features remote American landscapes captured with haunting stillness, revealing hidden natural rhythms and mysteries. The photographs, described as having a psychedelic quality, show landscapes that seem to exist beyond time where stones hold memory and the Earth hums with awareness. Lundgren avoids creating a distinct photographic style, instead focusing on the interaction between the viewer and the image. His work draws inspiration from shamanism and magical realism, emphasizing the reimagining of reality. The book includes reflections on his process, such as lying under ancient ironwood trees in the Sonoran desert and contemplating the cosmos from a field. Lundgren, a new father, created these images during a period of personal transformation, with one photograph taken at a mountain made of obsidian on his 50th birthday.