Eerie Photo Landscapes by Lori Nix Warn of an Apocalypytic Future

This creepy image above is not a photograph from New Orleans post-Katrina, although it looks like it could be. Artist <a href="http://www.lorinix.net/" target="_blank">Lori Nix</a> creates miniature landscapes full of disaster and decay and then photographs them, creating eerily surreal images that are both familiar and foreboding. An artist/photographer, Lori creates miniature landscapes "out of any material that will simulate a real landscape" and then photographs these sets, producing dark-humored visions of <a href="http://www.lorinix.net/kansas/index.html">a world filled with disaster and apocalyptic decay</a>. While her images resemble the work—or at least the working method—of Oliver Boberg and Thomas Demand, Nix's work invokes a more readily apparent sense of humor, counteracting the potentially melodramatic "sky-is-falling" theme, and making it even more evocative.

Abandoned power plants loom over destroyed farmlands.

A stray zeppelin on its way down.

Do we all face the possibility of three-headed dogs wandering in our backyards?

Overturned tankers = chemical spills in precious waterways.

Life imitating art? Cows die in poisoned water, surrounded by ruined earth.

An abandoned school bus in the middle of nowhere.