Today you will be writing about a photograph by artist Lori Nix. This image is from her series titled The City.
Write 4 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded. Remember, refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
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Before you write, read the artist statement: I consider myself a faux-landscape photographer. I build meticulously detailed model environments and then photograph the results. Through the photographic process, the fictional scene is transformed into a surreal space, where scale, perspective, and the document of the photograph create a tension between the material reality of the scene and the impossibility of the depicted narrative. In this space, between evidence and plot, the imagination of the viewer is unlocked, engaged, and provoked. I want my scenes to convey rich, complex, detailed, and, ultimately, open-ended narratives. Several common themes prevail throughout my work: the constructed photograph, the landscape in turmoil, and danger married to humor. I present these elements as the raw materials of stories with messages, but without conclusions. The photographs I create do not reflect the tradition of the grand idyllic landscape. Rather than showing the beautiful or heroic vista, I look to the darker corners of life. I am interested in the forces of entropy, in the ruins left in the wake of human pretense of grandeur. My scenes are usually devoid of people, and this emptiness becomes an important element. In this way, the impact of civilization is shown by what remains in the absence of humans. Evidence of humans may still be visible, but the cause for their absence is left unclear, allowing the viewer to complete the narrative. In my current series The City, I focus on the ruins of urban landscapes. I have chosen the spaces that celebrate modern culture, knowledge, and innovation: the theater, the museum, and the library. Here the monuments of civilization and material culture are abandoned, in a state of decay and ruin, with natural elements such as plants, insects, and animals beginning to repopulate the spaces. This idea of paradise lost, or the natural world reclaiming itself, becomes more forceful as we face greater environmental challenges in the world around us.
Sofia Galindo
3/4/2019 07:30:13 am
Lori Nix’s photograph is of a wrecked and dark looking classroom. There are blue pupils and in front of them a teacher's desk and chalkboard. The chalkboard is covered up by what looks to be a diagram of something. The tiled floor is very messy with debris covering it. To the right, there are shelves on the wall, but they are not lined with books or class materials. Skeleton heads are mostly stored on the shelves and jars of what looks to be liquids. The windows are cracked, dirty, and broken, just like the walls. The colors are eerie and dusty looking, adding to the post-apocalyptic theme. The only sunlight is coming from the windows and the rest of the classroom is very dark and shadowy.
Hasan Ehsan
3/4/2019 07:30:30 am
In this image by Lori Nix, a scene of some kind of urban building is depicted. It appears to be a classroom or a museum or a library; it’s something that represents knowledge and learning from previous generations. It’s using a variety of bright colors to identify the artifacts, and it uses gray and worn out shades for all the other dilapidated objects. The lighting is all natural light coming from the windows (though, this is a model, so that may not be entirely true. There’s absolutely no humans, which the author chose to do on purpose, and all we see are eccentric objects like skulls and organs as well as some chairs.
Matthew Sutherland
3/4/2019 07:32:35 am
The image is of a bunch of dusty chairs sitting in an old broken down science classroom. The windows are broken, there are fragments of objects lying on the ground, and the walls have water stains. There are models of organs and skeletons on shelves on the walls of the room. There is a diagram of an eye covering the blackboard. There are two dusty lamps hanging down from the ceiling. The image is using a lot of blues, browns, and whites. The lighting is bright sunlight as well as dark shadows.
Sam Meldner
3/4/2019 07:33:26 am
In this image, one of the first things that our eyes are drawn to is the front board. It seems to be crooked and messy like many other things within the room. The walls are cracked and discolored while there are also random boards on the floor. The shelves on the other side of the room are broken and not holding up any of the boards. Therefore, all of the boards begin to just fall off. 3/4/2019 07:33:45 am
In this image by Lori Nix she shows a destroyed, sorrowful science classroom. The walls and cieling seem to have water damage while, desks are destroy, but many things still seem pretty intact. The main color this image is using is a light tan in order to bring out the small bright colors in the photos. The lighting of the image is nice sky light coming from the windows which is problably mid day. The shadows that are involvd in the image are at the foreground of the image adn in the corners of the room, this brings out the center allowing the viewer to see the bright colors and really allows her to show that so call “emptyness.”
Clara Blume
3/4/2019 07:34:33 am
This image is very busy. It appears to be a classroom with broken, dirty desks, a crooked poster covering the blackboard, and shelves on the back and right wall full of small items such as human anatomy models, skulls, and books.There are two windows on the left wall and three windows above the blackboard on the back wall. The floor and the desks are very dusty and the cabinets on the right broken shelves and drawers. The ceiling is cracked and water-stained, and the walls are streaked with water marks. The colors of the cabinets, desks, floor, and walls are muted which makes the colors of the items on the walls stand out. The lighting looks natural, coming from the windows.
Farouk Ramzan
3/4/2019 07:34:49 am
It seems that the environment of the photo is a science classroom. There are skeletons and organ models scattered on the shelves and the desk. On the chalkboard, there is an illustration of the human eye and its components. On the right, you can see many human skulls lined on the shelf. Underneath the shelf, there are brains drenched in blood in containers. The last drawer is coming out of the table. The floor is littered with dust and debris. There is a broken skeleton body on the floor, to the right of the desk. The walls look very old with cracks and leak marks. You can see trees and outside the three obscure windows.
EmmaKate Spies
3/4/2019 07:37:55 am
In this image by Lori Nix the image is taken in a messy room with the ceiling looking slanted and the paintings on the wall all crooked and messy. The image looks to be taken in a classroom because of the desks facing the main desk. Everything in the room looks to be damaged by something, maybe the apocalypse. The lighting is some natural light coming in from the windows but also kind of dark and sad looking. What is happening in the image is that the room looks to be destroyed by something and everything is a complete mess.
Claire Rollwitz
3/4/2019 07:38:37 am
The image Lori Nix created is full of details. The image takes place in a run-down room classroom. There are dusty chairs on the floor, pictures, models of body parts on the walls and a desk for a teacher at the front of the room. The photo has more dull colors but incorporates subtle pops of color on the wall decor. The photo’s lighting is intentionally darker in the front, which sets more of an eerie tone in the photograph.
mariah podwika
3/4/2019 08:56:15 am
This image is of a post-apocalyptic room. Possibly a classroom and evident by the anatomy of the eye poster and the models of a liver and skulls. There are desks scattered throughout and disheveled chairs and what seems to be a blackboard behind the anatomy of the eye poster. The lighting is very dark but extremely natural. The light is something that you see in a forest on a cloudy day. The windows look broken and like they’ve been in a state of disrepair for a long time.
Troy Githinji
3/4/2019 02:01:41 pm
In this image, we are introduced to an almost dystopian world, shot by the artist Lori Nix. We are presented with a classroom in an abandoned state and showing signs of age with its cracked ceiling and destroyed shelves. The colors used in the photo are dark and dreary, but also somewhat realistic because of its diffused natural light. Looking closer, we can see models of the human body, reminiscent of a biology class, now in shambles and disorder. The absence of any care or love for this former classroom reminds one of a nuclear disaster or apocalypse, a place where no humans reside.
Teresa Lei
3/4/2019 03:08:49 pm
The photograph depicts a post-apocalypse scene of a ruined classroom. From the poster in the front and the displays on the shelves, it's apparent that the classroom was previously in use for the anatomy class. the classroom is very detailed in the term of showing the elapse of time. The ceiling is ruined by the humidity. The plants grow into the room. Dirt and ashes scatter in the room and cover every object. It is very realistic but also surreal. Comments are closed.
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