TABARJAL CIRCLES - Al-Jawf, Saudi Arabia. Ultradistancia Voyager, 2016

The SELECTED SERIES extends the visual experimentation of ULTRADISTANCIA across the entire planet. Moving beyond the stricter geometries of earlier works, the series explores the textures of terrestrial formations, unusual patterns in nature, and the unexpected structures produced by human intervention. Deserts, rivers, mountains, fields, coastlines, cities, infrastructures, and remote territories become part of a wider visual archive, where satellite imagery is approached as raw material for abstraction, composition, and discovery.

MARTHA´S VINEYARD I. Massachusetts, USA. - Ultradistancia Selected, 2017

The BLACK SERIES introduces a more complex and radical construction process. By isolating, contrasting, and reworking forms found within geography, the series transforms fragments of the Earth into autonomous aesthetic figures. These shapes, detached from their original context, appear almost as characters, signs, organisms, or imagined presences emerging from the landscape.

LENS CULTURE MAGAZINE about the Black Series link

ANTARNES II. Gujarat, India. - Ultradistancia Selected, 2017

Since the beginning of recorded history, we know that humans have imagined monsters and strangely shaped creatures that have mysterious powers. When they looked to the skies, they saw shapes and patterns in stars and clouds that then took on anthropomorphic or zoomorphic characteristics in their minds, and thus in our collective mythologies

Through the God’s-eye view of Google Earth, Winer discovers geographic shapes and geometries that transform cities, peninsulas, neighborhoods and ports into animals and monsters. Some, such as recently constructed island colonies are intentional, others are just strange coincidences. Perhaps more architects, city planners and land artists will take this view-from-the-skies approach into account as they design and build future projects.

—Jim Casper, LENS CULTURE