Climberscapes are at once self-portrait and landscape. Drawing inspiration from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th century photographs of figures in motion, each Climberscape begins with video footage of my own experiences rock climbing. The video is deconstructed frame-by-frame into individual figures, which I re-construct into a painting. The reversing and doubling of the strand of figures suggest the intertwining of a DNA chain. In Western painting, landscapes are traditionally horizontal and describe single-perspective views of a scene. The Climberscapes, with their extreme verticality, refer to Chinese mountain landscape scrolls. These are landscapes that – like a climbing route – are meant to be read from bottom to top. As a rock climber, I negotiate my way up a vertical face of rock. The route is a narrative. In the Climberscape paintings, each movement of the figure tells the story of the climb.