Surrounding Waterways

Chris Craychee, 2025

The artist uses a 360º camera to capture a variety of in-motion environments. He uses software edit the footage to bend and fold horizon lines. The images retain the familiar quality of a location, but encourage viewers to interpret what they see from a new vantage point.

For the glass feature walls on the departures level, he focused on waterways of our region. He explored rivers, creeks, and runs, ultimately choosing views of four locations to highlight. In each of these images the camera was placed directly in the water. This creates a perspective very similar to, but slightly displaced from, the view one would have walking past on nearby trails. One can imagine looking down at a separate alien planet, but at the same time experience the feeling of being fully enveloped by a familiar place.

 

Materials: Photography, Video, Glass
Location: Arrivals Level, Pre-security Terminal
Type: Photography

Chris Craychee’s “Surrounding Waterways” are located at the bathrooms on the terminal’s departures level. They depict the Rachel Carson and Andy Warhol Bridges, as well as the Allegheny River and the Three Rivers Heritage Trial. His work is also located at the south end bathroom, showcasing the Nine Mile Run. Because of their proximity, the photographs are linked together, both formally and thematically.

 

Photo courtesy of Chris Craychee

About the Artist

Chris Craychee is interested in the dichotomies and contradictions inherent in the human act of processing information and experience. He places viewers into environments that can be disorienting, but also familiar and comforting. Chris has exhibited in locally at SPACE Gallery and Brewhouse, Francis Marion University, and Kent State University. From 2021-2025, he collaborated with the Khasma Piano Duo on their TREKKING Project, producing and directing video accompaniments that were projected during live performances at venues across the United States. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh.

Photo courtesy of Chris Craychee