| Lukoschek’s photographs compose quiet, simple, and minimal scenes of barren landscapes. In many pieces there are only a few elements that compose the entire composition. The color palettes, as well, are simplistic, involving only a few colors, and sometimes even remain monochromatic. Many times Lukoschek’s landscapes are found covered in snow, blending the land with sky, blurring what is traditionally expected in a landscape, a bisected composition. |  |
Lukoschek’s photographs compose quiet, simple, and minimal scenes of barren landscapes. In many pieces there are only a few elements that compose the entire composition. The color palettes, as well, are simplistic, involving only a few colors, and sometimes even remain monochromatic.
Many times Lukoschek’s landscapes are found covered in snow, blending the land with sky, blurring what is traditionally expected in a landscape, a bisected composition. The snow has a strange effect on the viewing of the spaces shown, baring the land and space of any perspective and variation, in a peculiar kind of way that often deters the viewer from the recognition of a landscape. However, seen together, them as a collection the viewer becomes aware of the elements of nature and can piece together these abbreviated moments into the collective source.
Some of the artist’s photographs lay quite still, motionless, in a powerful serenity. In others there is a strong sense of movement that becomes a main focus and a primary feature playing a main role in the aesthetic language of the pieces. Often appearing as a quickly fleeting moment, smudged against the whirling speed at which it was taken, this photographic technique resembles the power and velocity of perhaps a car and the technology of today. Seeing this pace placed upon a landscape, something we would, of course, associate with the natural world is dizzying and not only in visual sense, the thought of the two extremes lying on top of each other provokes a troubling disturbance. Again, when seen together this effect or technique becomes a visual theme within Lukoschek’s works. These pieces that have a heavy emphasis on a sense of movement grab the viewer and propel an immediate questioning and interest. The distortions not only give the pieces an acute dynamism, but they also possess a kind of ambiguity and uncertainty, the viewer can not be completely trusting or knowing of what they are observing. This stirred curiosity remains a predominant strength in Lukoschek’s work. Allowing for flexibility in the viewer’s translation, the artist opens his work up to multiple interpretations.
