Pretty Dark Things

I've ventured into some beautiful surroundings with shadowy back stories. In my series “Pretty Dark Things”, I chose not to relate the settings as documentaries. Instead, I developed a multimedia process of hand coloring photographs and using layers of acrylic to conjure bucolic scenarios that almost have an effect of vintage Chinoiserie reverse paintings.

The submitted images include a nuclear plant with an unnerving safety record in the midst of a beautiful swampland, an aspiring amusement park laying unfinished due to its creator succumbing to a paranoid fury, and a malnourished but sacred cow walking by an art gallery in India.

All images are archival pigment prints with acrylic layers and watercolor, and are 47"W by 32"L.