Rebecca Horne writes in Wired:
How will the world end? Will it be an asteroid, extreme climate conditions, a viral pandemic? No one really knows, which is why apocalypse scenarios are such rich territory for imaginative artists like Lori Nix. The Brooklyn-based photographer creates and then documents detailed miniature dioramas of the end times—visions of what might be left behind once humans are gone.
Constructing the dioramas is a painstaking process, and Nix completes only three in a given year. As such, she makes very conscious decisions about what scenes she conjures. Crumbling institutions of science and learning turn up often in the work and are depicted with a gratifying realism.
“I think these are incredibly important places to learn about ourselves, learn what it means to be human,” says Nix. “These institutions are telling us about our pasts so that we may avoid the same mistakes in the future. Unfortunately, we’re not listening very well.”
View Lori Nix’s series “The City”
Browse all of Lori Nix’s images at ClampArt