PhotoNOLA: Christopher Jordan
The project Suburban Sublime situates a mystical narrative within suburbia. Suburban landscapes are seemingly bland and uneventful places. Yet paradoxically, this banality can incubate something curious and wondrous, such as the luminous events transpiring within these pictures. Are the events supernatural? Fantastical? Threatening? That remains to be seen. The sublime can be found within the depths of the paradox.
The images are made by photographing dioramas, which are themselves built from photographs. Through the use of light and velum, the impression of luminous, atmospheric effects is created in front of the lens. The buildings and places depicted are no longer specimens of suburbia; they become visual koans, requiring an imaginative leap to resolve initial perceptions. This work explores the ambiguity between photographic expectation and neo-pictorialist space, signification and abstraction, and the real versus the uncanny.
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