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.
Dylan Pegg
2/9/2018 10:01:57 am
The scene pictured is of a Chinese Restaurant after humans have disappeared. It uses a dry color pallet. The studio lighting is used to make the restaurant appear more believable. A picture of a Chinese building is hung on the wall in addition to menus. A scooter lays against the wall and rubble and garbage cover the floor. 2/9/2018 10:03:11 am
This image is of a trashed Chinese restaurant in a post-apocalyptic world, with garbage on the floor and a scooter against the wall. The image is using very warm colors such as red, beige, yellow, and brown to give a very natural feel. The lighting in the image is very neutral, not too bright and not too dark. The objects in the image are, 2 menus, garbage, a door, a scooter, a picture, rails, and a glass wall. In this image it appears that there has been a disaster and this Chinese restaurant has been both abandoned and trashed.
Kaitlyn Evans
2/9/2018 10:03:28 am
This image is of a dirty broken down Chinese restaurant. The colors in this image are dark and light. I think the lighting in this image is studio setup. In this image there is a menu with food on it, a scooter, a painting , and trash and dirt scattered on the floor. In this image there is barely anything happening because the restaurant is broken down and vacant.
Melody Umsted
2/9/2018 10:03:44 am
This picture is of a diorama of a Chinese restaurant. It has been abandoned for some time. The floor is dirty, the ceiling falling down, everything is dusty. There are menus and pictures on the walls. There is a blue moped leaning against on of the walls. Apart from this scene being abandoned, it looks outdated.
Adriana Vazquez
2/9/2018 10:07:06 am
Catherine Clausewitz
2/9/2018 10:07:45 am
This is a scene of an abandoned chinese restaurant. It looks very run down and like it has been out of business for a while. Everything is covered in a layer of dirt and dust as well as trash everywhere. There are multiple objects in the scene that are the main focus. However, the motor bike stood out the most. It's propped up against a wall and is covered in dirt. It is a royal blue color and has something hanging off the handle bars. Everything in this scene is in focus and it has a feel were there is an endpoint to it like if you were taking a picture standing in the middle of the road. 2/9/2018 10:11:51 am
This image is of a chinese restaurant that has been clearly destroyed and abandoned. You can still see some remnants of the past like the motorcycle. There are a couple paintings in the wall with some food items like the menu. The walls and the door are run down. There is a lot of dirt in the ground clearly showing that nature is now taking its place in thus. The colors in this photograph are mainly a creamy white with the walls floor and ceiling. It gives it a warm feel like a home or a familiar place. There is sunlight and a bit of shadows as you go all the way down in the hallway.
Julieta Vazquez Martinez
2/9/2018 08:16:04 pm
This image is about a Chinese restaurant. The creator using a warm pallet of colors, from purplish maroon, to light brown, dark blue and lots of white. The set simulates to have different spaces like back, middle and front. In the back is where people usually take the customer's order. On top of the counter is a menu and another one is visible to the left front part of the image. In the contrary corner of this menu (in the left front bottom) there is a lot of dirt and trash scattered around the floor. Underneath the menu is an old blue motorcycle. The restaurant looks abandoned and untaken care of, there is also a fox coming out of the kitchen behind the counter. 2/11/2018 09:44:14 am
The image is of an abandoned restaurant with dirt and trash all over the floor. Some vegetation is growing from the dirt on the floor and the place doesn’t seem to have been left in a hurry since the moped is still in the restaurant. The image mostly uses warm colors with the light of the image coming from the right side of the image. The place appears to be a restaurant because of the images of food on the wall but the “restaurant” is only a hallway with no tables and a door which probably leads to the kitchen. It appears that nature is taking back the restaurant because of the vegetation growing on the floor and the fox peeping through the door.
Andi Feik
2/11/2018 08:00:47 pm
This is an image by Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber. It is of what looks to be a very run down restaurant. It uses very dark and sort of old-fashioned colors. The lighting isn’t that dark but it looks very white. In this image, there are no people it is just a run-down restaurant with a motorcycle in it and grass growing up from the floor. This image is what Nix and Gerber say to be post-apocalyptic. The image definitely matches their description of the image.
Chase Blackwell
2/13/2018 09:26:49 pm
The image shows an abandoned and trashed asian restaurant. To convey this, the artist uses very muted colors and creates a very destroyed environment. In the bottom corner, the grass and dirt is coming in to the restaurant. Combined with the fact that the image does not have any humans or people in it, these two factors hint at nature's reclamation of that land. The scene has no definite subject but rather is a subject itself, as the entirety is in focus. Comments are closed.
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