Backscape
Backscape Exhibition Catalogue
Backscape combines the words “back” and “landscape”. The work starts from nine photographs taken from the same spot, rotating the camera slightly each time. A custom application picks a random vertical strip of pixels from any of the nine images and places it back in its original position. The result is a composite assembled by chance, always changing, made entirely from the same place.
The total number of distinct combinations is:
D(n, k) = nᵏ = 6,912⁹ = 36,010,865,974,957,671,360,125,199,766,781,952
This notation D(n, k) indicates dispositions with repetition of n distinct elements taken k at a time, where order matters (each strip occupies a fixed position) and repetition is allowed (the same strip type can appear across different images).
What appears on screen is that landscape — one of its 3.6 × 1034 possible versions, assembled from the same nine images.
