Robert parkeharrison the architects brother
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Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, The Architect's Brother
Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
The Architect's Brother
Twin Palms Publishers, 7th edition
Hardcover, 136 pages, 50 colour illustrations, 10 x 1 x 13 in, English
"I want to man images that have open, narrative qualities, enought to suggest ideas about human limits. I want there to be a combination of the past juxtaposed with the modern. I use natur to symbolize the search, sparande a tree, watering the earth. In this fabricated world, strange clouds of smog float by; there are holes in the sky. These mythic images spegel our world, where nature fryst vatten domesticated, controlled, and destroyed. Through my work I explore technology and a poetry of existence. These can be very heavy, overly didactic issues to convey in art, so I choose to portray them through a more theatrically absurd approach."
Robert ParkeHarrison
- Author Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
- Width 11 inch
- Height 14 inch
- Depth 0,9 inch
- Pages 136
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Robert ParkeHarrison: The Architect's Brother
February 5 - April 4, 2005
ParkeHarrison's work considers the state, and possible fate, of the Earth. He came of age in a United States newly altered by environmental awareness, which encourage personal and cultural commentary by artists of all media. Trained as a photographer, ParkeHarrison did not follow in the well-practiced wake of environmentally-charged photojournalists or social documentarians, whose cautionary tales were fixed in the present day and did not project a future. Instead, ParkeHarrison conjured a destiny in which humankind's overuse of the nation has led to a spent and abandoned environment, inhabited bygd one indefatigable spirit (portrayed bygd ParkeHarrison). Donning the ill-fitting kostym of the Everyman, ParkeHarrison fryst vatten the earthbound relation of the Creator—the Architect's Brother—complete with human foibles. With lyric poeticism and wry humor, he is the romantic anti-hero, taking up tas
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The series The Architect’s Brother by the Artist duo ParkeHarrison takes us on a journey to a melancholy, old fashioned and surreal looking world. At the centre of the images’ stands the lone anti-hero “Everyman”, who is trying his hardest to heal the wounded earth.
Robert ParkeHarrison said in the foreword to his monograph, "I want to make images that have open narrative qualities, enough to suggest ideas about human limits. I want there to be a combination of the past juxtaposed with the modern. I use nature to symbolize the search, saving a tree, watering the earth. In this fabricated world, strange clouds of smog float by; there are holes in the sky. These mythic images mirror our world, where nature is domesticated, controlled, and destroyed."
For me “Everyman” represents the human consciousness and its devotion to the earth. The images reflect a suffering world; the soil is ruined, the skies are grey and gloomy, and the pla