Italian Alps Clouds Sam Ferguson’s sweeping mountain panorama

Sam Ferguson’s sweeping mountain panorama is transformed into a sculptural artwork—printed on glossy acrylic and cut to the silhouette of a snowboard

cowboy portraiture from the 1880s on used the same trick when the subject didn't want a face on a picture

Aspen Mountain rising behind

Shot on film in his hometown

Italian Alps Clouds Sam Ferguson’s sweeping mountain panoramaSeceda sits at 8,205 feet in the Italian Dolomites, above the village of Ortisei in Val Gardena. The peak is asymmetric: a near vertical limestone wall on the north face, dropping a thousand feet, and a long gentle alpine meadow on the south. The Dolomites are the Triassic reef sediments of an ancient tropical sea, now sitting in the air. Evan shoots up the gentle face into the cliff.