Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
The Architect's Brother
twin palms publishers
november 2000
11 x 14 inches
64 four-color plates
136 pages
slipcase edition
signed
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"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. 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