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Detail of Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” at the National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Leaves of Grass (detail) provides a densely collaged three-dimensional array of images from Life magazine 1935-1985. It is an examination of the effects photography has had on what…

Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” at the National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Leaves of Grass provides a densely collaged three-dimensional array of images from Life magazine 1935-1985. It is an examination of the effects photography has had on what we…

Aspirations

The idea of toys for children is emphasized by making the text rounded, of different bright colors and by using a backwards ‘R’ in stead of the word…

Shape of love

The heart shape has a long history and many kinds of associations in our popular culture, media and digital interfaces. It can be viewed as kitsch, to say…

Advertisement for watch on decaying wall, Berlin

Ironic juxtaposition of large clean advertisement for a watch on a crumbling wall along a side street in central Berlin

Advertisement for Impressionist exhibition on bus, Dublin

Advertising of all kinds colonizes every available new space in the visual environment, such as the back of this bus. As a driver behind the bus this ad…

Trabant Meets Minions

Advertising an event, the Trabant car with multiple headlights becomes an ironic housing for the image of a Minion with a single headlight-like eye. The cheap car references…

Capitalism

This image of a nuclear power plant belching grey smoke into an equally grey sky indicates the needs and results of industrialization. Ever-more power is needed to run…

Passive and Active Representation of Gender

These magazines show very different versions of masculine and feminine display. The man is featured central to the front page of Forbes, a business and financial advice magazine….

Closeup photo of gray viewing device

Pay-for-use binoculars that make popular tourist views into a commodity. It frames the view (from all possible views), virtually stating that this point of view is significant and…