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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDollhouses of doom: Lori Nix’s post-apocalyptic dioramas
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The morbid fascination with ruin pornthe decrepit or devastated remains of human existenceis hardly a niche interest at this point. People are drawn to the aftermath of destruction or the ravages of time because catastrophe and/or decay is mesmerizing, but many argue that ruin porn is voyeuristic and ghoulish. Well, thats why we have art, folksso we can gawk without guilt!
For her series, The City, photographer Lori Nix hand-builds tiny, exquisitely detailed diorama models of human spaces in a post-apocalyptic world. Nix grew up in disaster-prone Kansas, and a childhood of flooding, tornadoes, and blizzards shaped her catastrophic visions as much as sensationalist cinema. From her site:
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"I am fascinated, maybe even a little obsessed, with the idea of the apocalypse. In addition to my childhood experiences with natural disasters, I also grew up watching 1970s films known as disaster flicks. I remember watching Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Planet of the Apes and sitting in awe in the dark. Here was the same type of dangers I had experienced day to day being magnified and played out on the big screen in a typical Hollywood way."
The mysterious disaster thats left Nixs civilization to fallow is never explained, and no human survivors are ever present. The viewer is simply given permission to stare at whats left.
For her series, The City, photographer Lori Nix hand-builds tiny, exquisitely detailed diorama models of human spaces in a post-apocalyptic world. Nix grew up in disaster-prone Kansas, and a childhood of flooding, tornadoes, and blizzards shaped her catastrophic visions as much as sensationalist cinema. From her site:
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"I am fascinated, maybe even a little obsessed, with the idea of the apocalypse. In addition to my childhood experiences with natural disasters, I also grew up watching 1970s films known as disaster flicks. I remember watching Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Planet of the Apes and sitting in awe in the dark. Here was the same type of dangers I had experienced day to day being magnified and played out on the big screen in a typical Hollywood way."
The mysterious disaster thats left Nixs civilization to fallow is never explained, and no human survivors are ever present. The viewer is simply given permission to stare at whats left.
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Brilliant.
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Dollhouses of doom: Lori Nix’s post-apocalyptic dioramas (Original Post)
MerryBlooms
Jun 2016
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libodem
(19,288 posts)1. Are you sure the top one
Isn't the lounge?
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)2. I don't see any pants on the floor... so it can't be our lounge.
libodem
(19,288 posts)3. Hot tub is out back
Right?
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)4. I didn't know the lounge had a hot tub...
I thought that perk was strictly regulated for the mods, and since we no longer have mods... is there MIRTub?
libodem
(19,288 posts)5. The mods abandoned it
Out behind the loung long ago.
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)6. Oh! Well count me in, and I'll bring the bleach and Maker's Mark !!
nolabear
(41,932 posts)7. I'm in!
Let me find me snorkel.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)8. My sister--in-law will love this!
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)9. Pretty great stuff.
flying rabbit
(4,625 posts)10. K&R nt
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)11. k&r