https://www.parkeharrison.com/statement
"Staged images offer endless possibilities for exploration while offering viewers personal interpretation. By allowing viewers to complete the story before them, we allow agency to take hold within them. We develop layers of duality: hope and despair, success and failure, desire and distain, destruction and stewardship. "
"In Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s exhibition and book, The Architect’s Brother, the artists create an imaginary dystopia in which a sole survivor tries to mend a broken earth. In sepia-toned multi-media photographs, they envision the attempts of a figure in an ill-fitting black suit to perform such tasks as cleaning clouds, creating machines to listen to the earth, and transcribing the stories of trees. Creating visual parables about the possibility of healing the planet, the ParkeHarrisons invent a variety of absurd solutions to their bleak scenes of post-apocalyptic environmental devastation." https://sites.middlebury.edu/landandlens/2016/10/20/robert-and-shana-parkeharrison-tree-sonata-1999/
[ there is a video off this page]
them at Interlochen; interaction with early career students:
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directions won't get you there
"Staged images offer endless possibilities for exploration while offering viewers personal interpretation. By allowing viewers to complete the story before them, we allow agency to take hold within them. We develop layers of duality: hope and despair, success and failure, desire and distain, destruction and stewardship. "
"In Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s exhibition and book, The Architect’s Brother, the artists create an imaginary dystopia in which a sole survivor tries to mend a broken earth. In sepia-toned multi-media photographs, they envision the attempts of a figure in an ill-fitting black suit to perform such tasks as cleaning clouds, creating machines to listen to the earth, and transcribing the stories of trees. Creating visual parables about the possibility of healing the planet, the ParkeHarrisons invent a variety of absurd solutions to their bleak scenes of post-apocalyptic environmental devastation." https://sites.middlebury.edu/landandlens/2016/10/20/robert-and-shana-parkeharrison-tree-sonata-1999/
[ there is a video off this page]
them at Interlochen; interaction with early career students:
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directions won't get you there