Landscapes gone Wrong
November 14, 2008
Accidentally Kansas. Flood, Chromogenic Print
This photographs are part of the series Landscapes of a World-Gone-Wrong by Lori Nix.
She says:
“I play on the nostalgia of the romantic landscape tradition, suggesting that the natural environment is strife with hidden dangers. At first glimpse, the mundane image appears little more than the quotidian photograph. Upon further examination, something seems amiss. These aren’t real landscapes but painstaking recreations in miniature. I take pleasure in bringing to life the narratives I draw from newspaper headlines, books and absurd real life situations. I try to maintain a sense of dark but humorous irony in the stories I tell by combining a sense of innocence with tragedy. A giant acrylic swell of a wave dwarfs two empty life jackets hidden in the water; a panoramic cityscape comes alive only when you notice a person leaping to her demise from the bridge. My photographs serve as evidence to the viewer, of the consequences of a world gone wrong. Not the objective evidence, per se of a crime photograph but the unfolding of life’s dramas frozen with the cool objectivity of an architect’s model of his own creation. What comes into view is the decisive moments in life where all the dangers and mishaps come together to create poetry.”
Accidentally Kansas. Blimp, Chromogenic Print
Accidentally Kansas. Dog , Chromogenic Print
Accidentally Kansas. Nuclear Cooling Towers, Chromogenic Print
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