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.
Tomas Espejo
2/28/2020 11:30:07 am
In this photo the colors that are being used include green, blue, tan, orange, yellow, and red. The color green is being occupied by the grass in on the bottom of the train and also the grass in the background. Blue is the color of the windows and walls of the train. Tan is the color of some of the walls and mainly the sand, at the bottom of the train. Orange, yellow, and red are being used by the color of the seats.
Jacob Perez
2/28/2020 11:31:10 am
This is an image of a post apocalyptic subway. I see sand with some plants growing in them. I also see the outside as a desert area. I also see that the metal around the subway has corroded and rusted. The lighting used is natural from the sun.
Gabby Beck
2/28/2020 11:43:00 am
The photo shows an abandoned subway in the middle of the desert. The subway walls have rusted showing how old the structure is. The color of the seats are still pretty bright and the light is coming in from the outside. There are no people and the structure looks pretty old so this might resemble a post apocalyptic situation. There are some taller buildings in the background, though.
Alissa Welsh
2/28/2020 11:49:22 am
This picture was created by Lori Nix, which is from her series titled The City. It looks like it was taken in an abandoned subway. The subways floor is filled with sand and small plants, the roof looks rusted, through the open doors I can see tall buildings, the sits in the subway look dirty, there is a board on the side that has some letters on it. The colors that are being used are red-brown, orange, yellow, green, black, white, grey, blue, and pink. Nix chose these colors to give it that abandon vibe.
Suly Welsh
2/28/2020 11:50:19 am
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Andy Cubriel
2/28/2020 05:55:22 pm
This image appears to be of a subway car in a desert. The floor of the car and all of the seats are covered in sand, and there appears to be several abandoned belongings on the seats. You can see several high-rise buildings in the background, and there is a tattered poster that says “ Take a Break from life”. The main colors used are rust brown, and bright yellow and red. The bright yellow and red and orange are there to create contrast, and probably help to spark interest in the image. There are also some plants in the image, which implies that the subway has been abandoned long enough for them to grow.
Kate McDaniel
3/18/2020 07:23:00 pm
This image is of an old, rusted, abandoned train car, sitting in the middle of nowhere, with sand and plants all in it. The colors in this image are orange, yellow, beige, silver, green, and blue. The orange and yellow are incorporated in the colors of the seats. The beige is in the sand. The silver for the color of the train car. The green for the color of the plants, and the blue for the poster on the sky. Comments are closed.
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