Photography has infiltrated our world with its air of authenticity, finding itself at the forefront of media, our personal connections, and even the writing of history. Disrupting this notion, Thomas Card presents photography in obscurity through his series “Alone Together”. With each step the viewer takes toward these images, the experience changes. What was once a landscape with a stark horizon line gives way to a series of coded images hidden among the varying tonal values. This distorted environment reveals itself to be a photographic collage of hundreds of repeated images mounted to the surface. The subjects before Card’s lens are mutated, miniaturized, and translated into a pattern of small repeating images. As their clarity and tone wax and wane they consume the entirety of the piece. In this new duplicated form we experience the meaning of each subject evolve. A once singular narrative encapsulated within the image transforms. The mere act of repeating the image, again and again, adds to its story elevating it into one of cultural symbolism. Stepping back now, these newfound symbols with newfound meanings coalesce. An illusion of the sky and ground unfolds before us. Card manipulates the foundations of aesthetics, inviting us to a more articulate vision of our world in the multi-dimensionality of his work. Our world, burdened by a self-created and perpetuated imposition of order, mechanically reproduced with the inevitable impact of so-called progress on our landscapes and humanity as a whole. But upon closer examination, hidden in the details of his meticulous pieces, Card offers some hope as the individual landscapes suggest an often overlooked perspective of beauty. Alone Together invites even more analysis and debate by clearly referencing Chaos Theory, computer coding, numerology, market patterns, ekgs and practical every pattern existing in the natural and unnatural world. The world can seem cold and cruel, but we can still manage to find a connection. In his experimentations, Card’s “Alone Together” challenges his viewers to search for new meanings in the people, the places, and the objects that surround them. While mankind actively seeks to leave its mark on the world, we can still find the individual among the industrialization of our world. Moments of personalization seep through the grain, the pixels, and the cracks of society. In times when it feels as if isolation has prevailed, we can uncover new beauty and new opportunities as we move forward together.