LORI NIX/ THE CITY

Over the past eight years, Lori Nix (born 1969) has created meticulously detailed model environments and then photographed them loca tions within a fictional city that celebrate modern culture, knowledge, and innovation. But her monuments of civilization and materi al culture in The City are abandoned, in a state of ruin where nature has begun to repopulate the spaces. I am fascinated, maybe ev en a little obsessed, with the idea of the apocalypse. In addition to my childhood experiences growing up with natural disasters in Kansas, I ...[Read more]