Flat World marks a departure from traditional depictions of place, capturing lived environments with a distinctly digital boldness. In this series, Ladianne Henderson strips scenes to their most vital shapes, embracing a philosophy of “less is more.”

Abandoning depth and elaborate detail, Henderson distills memories into crisp, flattened layers—each fragment shaped by selective perspective and considered use of light. What emerges are scenes that almost hover between map and memory, their minimalism lending them both a sense of clarity and a feeling of distance.

There’s a quiet cleverness here: the familiar rendered unfamiliar by the digital hand, shadows and silhouettes evoking rather than describing. Flat World invites viewers to contemplate what remains when complexity is pared away, leaving only the essentials. In doing so, Henderson reveals the remarkable capacity of simplification to conjure presence, and the peculiar poignancy of revisiting the spaces of our lives as bright, flattened echoes.