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Technologically aided viewing of famous art

This is a typical environment for viewing famous art such as van Gogh’s Starry Night at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. People experience the painting visually through…

Thai Restaurant featuring wall mural of Hokusai’s woodblock print ‘Great Wave off Kanagowa’

This Thai restaurant on the lower east side of Manhattan appropriates the image of Hokusai’s famous print for the back wall. This provides an easily recognizable art historical…

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…

Feminine Stereotypes

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….

Rainbow Beads

Whether intentional or not, arranging anything in a rainbow pattern today indicates (connotes) LGBTQ interests.

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…