Nature reclaims The City in these dioramas built and photographed by Lori Nix.
Nix on her project:
In my newest body of work The City I have imagined a city of our future, where something either natural or as the result of mankind, has emptied the city of it’s human inhabitants. Art museums, Broadway theaters, laundromats and bars no longer function. The walls are deteriorating, the ceilings are falling in, the structures barely stand, yet Mother Nature is slowly taking them over. These spaces are filled with flora, fauna and insects, reclaiming what was theirs before man’s encroachment. I am afraid of what the future holds if we do not change our ways regarding the climate, but at the same time I am fascinated by what a changing world can bring.
Selections from Life Science, a project by scientist and photographer Eran Gilat.
Gilat on her work:
This is an attempt of mine to present a personal document of my individual experience in Medical Science research. The project is inspired by long lasting scientific confrontation with various biological specimens, while engaged in Physiological and Medical studies and my devotion to imaging. It is my personal expression and thoughts on the incredible complexity of the organism and its highly accomplished organs and aesthetics in general.
In “Life Science” I wish to offer an artistic expression that brings together observation on scientific research with an emphasize on preparation hierarchy and aesthetics.
Many life scientists experience during their career a hierarchical preparatory process, confronting, simple systems as well as more complicated ones to simplify extrapolation to human being applications.
It takes a while for a young clinician or a researcher to accommodate the laboratory or hospital scenes to enable good performance. This is done by extensive training; some cannot adjust to the visuals. I feel my photographic activity carries me to these regions too. I found myself during my studies engaged with these issues, and I believe I am dealing with the aesthetics of the scene, improvising various contexts, the tools and paraphernalia are not just the typical ones used in the operating place. “Life Science” is forcing the biological tissue into relatively pleasant, sometimes artificial Vanitas scenarios contemplating issues of materialism and mortality.
# The source of all specimens were meat markets and natural history exhibits.
Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold. Vedas.
vedas is an ongoing project broadly based on the theme ‘knowledge’. specifically the changes in thought established by copernicus’ de revolutionibus orbium coelestium (on the revolutions of the celestial spheres). one of the earliest documents of the scientific revolution. it re-assessed man’s place in the cosmos and placed him at no greater value than other creatures on earth.
knowledge, it seems; is at once both expansive and contractive. it is a value exchange. for some it shakes foundations, de-stabilizes values and opens up the sheer terror of possibility. for others it signifies hope, advancement and discovery.all content copyright © nicholas alan cope and dustin edward arnold all rights reserved
websites:
cope-arnold.com
cope1.com
dustinarnold.com
found at PYTR 75
Collages of landscapes shot at different times and seasons by Noel Myles
About the project:
Throughout Noel Myles’s work there is a consistent aim to extend the still photographic image beyond the single moment and the static viewpoint. The intention is to evoke the perception of accumulated experience.
