About the Exhibition
As the owner of Southwest Scanning, Scott Ernst documents heritage as well as contemporary buildings using several 3D Digital Documentation technologies which allow him to capture virtual replicas of structures and bring them back to the office. The typical goal is to use these models to generate as-built drawings for restoration, adaptive reuse, or engineering analysis. Creating these drawings involves working with the models in different software packages, clipping them into segments to isolate particular areas in the models and view them in different ways.
Over the years, Scott has discovered that there is beauty to be found and and there are stories to be told about the history of the buildings within those scans. From incidental portraits and timelines of cultural changes, deterioration and rebirth; to abstract washes of color, this exhibit will show some of these hidden stories.
About the artist
Scott Ernst has been working in the preservation field, as both a craftsman and digital documentarian since 2009. Working extensively in New Mexico and across the American West he has been involved in projects ranging from the replication of traditional window sashes to the documentation of historic commercial buildings, churches and environmental sculptures as well as early twentieth century, timber framed mine structures.
Whether he is spending a day or two scanning an historic adobe in Santa Fe or camping for several weeks alongside a c. 1905 ore tramway in Death Valley, Scott finds that the work allows him the time to think about the people who built these things, wonder about the times they lived in, the technologies that they lived with and to see the subject in deeper ways than if he were a casual visitor.
