BROOKLYN, NY .- Higher Pictures is presenting its first in-person exhibition with Daniel Temkin, a new iteration of the artist’s 2020 online exhibition originally mounted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition brings together two series: Straightened Trees and Dither Studies to explore human fallibility and the irrational architectures of systems we construct to impose order. In Straightened Trees, a series of gelatin silver prints, Temkin photographs trees with a large-format field camera and then “corrects” their natural curvature with a custom code. Straightened Trees highlight both the normative assumptions that underlie calibration and our compulsive desire for orderliness. In Dither Studies, Temkin brings this overlooked system to the fore: hand rendering dithers in acrylic on panel, each pixel translated into a square of color.