Noah Landfield’s work reflects the often volatile nature of metropolitan life. This reflection of volatility also derives from his fascination with volcanic activity. His impressionistic overlays of metropolitan architectural renderings are inspired by his visits to Japan and his reaction to the compact urban environment of Tokyo, as well as the urban centers of Rome and Florence, where the warmth of color and light and the juxtaposition of many centuries of architecture manifest themselves in his canvases depicting those locales. Landfield's canvases are redolent of the tension between man-made urban structures and the forces of nature, as well as expressive in how urbanity and nature manage to coexist. The unsettling nature of temporal questions gives a strong contemporary edge to Landfield's work, which is also evident in his play on visual perception in the near-photographic quality of his depiction of cities.
