Look: a driveway moment diorama! In case you haven’t noticed, we love dioramas and we love public radio, so basically we just blew a gasket of delight over here. This is by Brooklyn artist Grady McFerrin, and you can see more of his stuff here.
More amazing dioramas from Lori Nix:
“I was not much of a photojournalist. I didn’t have the gift of being at the right place to capture breaking news…My strength lies in my ability to build and construct my world rather than seek out an existing world.”
These miniature worlds are from her haunting series The City. Lots more on her website and blog.
“Welcome to the cockeyed world of artist-photographer Lori Nix, as she takes us behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum. Nix’s diminutive dioramas unfold as microcosms—where the world of science collides with an overactive imagination, with amusing results. Nix fabricates these elaborate miniature scenes in her Brooklyn studio, forgoing any kind of digital intervention. Nix: “I’m greatly enamored with the Natural History Museum, and visit it as often as I can. My series Unnatural History is a look at the inner workings of the museum. The images feature animals and situations where the science and/or facts they represent are a little confused.”
Description from Rebecca Horne’s (rather excellent) Discover magazine blog “Visual Science”
These are great! And now I want to be friends with both Lori Nix and Rebecca Horne.
