sundance

Flying (falling?) mobile homes

Peter Garfield’s “Mobile Homes” series stopped me cold in my Interneting steps. The artist’s non-photoshopped images casually freeze a moment in time where a disintegrating single family home floats in the air over nondescript suburban neighborhood. It’s unclear whether the houses are in a state of falling or flying like a nightmarish version of Pixar’s UP where in Garfield’s world curmudgeonly Carl Fredricksen and Russell don’t make it to Paradise Falls. This ambiguity adds to the mystery where as Alexander Uhr put it, there’s “something too normal about these photographs of very extraordinary occurrences.” It’s only when viewing the behind the scenes process and the curtain is pulled back that the enigma is revealed.

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