Jonathan Levitt is a graduate of Hampshire College, the Dubrulle French Culinary Institute of Canada, and the Masters Program in Gastronomy at Boston University. These are images from the series Wake to Songbirds Wake to Crows. There are 1,000 images in the series.
The images represented in “The Wine Dark Sea” are American coastlines photographed between 2006 and 2009. As Kennedy explains, “The American frontier, once viewed as the Wild West and the new world, is no longer seen as uncharted territory or undiscovered land.” This collection revisits that perspective, using landscape as the starting point of a philosophical journey and a reckoning with nature. In the artist’s experience as a modern day cipher, The Odyssey becomes a journey through the vistas of America, a search for renewed vision of the land that carries both the excitement and isolation of exploration.