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Eerie Photo Landscapes by Lori Nix Warn of an Apocalypytic Future

09/29/2014

Lori Nix Flood

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.

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Lori Nix Power Plant

Abandoned power plants loom over destroyed farmlands.

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Lori Nix Falling Zeppelin

A stray zeppelin on its way down.

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Lori Nix Cerberus

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

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Lori Nix Tankers

Overturned tankers = chemical spills in precious waterways.

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Lori Nix Cow

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

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Lori Nix Abandoned Bus

An abandoned school bus in the middle of nowhere.

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Lori Nix Flood

This creepy image above is not a photograph from New Orleans post-Katrina, although it looks like it could be. Artist Lori Nix 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 world filled with disaster and apocalyptic decay. 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.

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Lori Nix Flood