Artists Create Incredible Model Sets To Imagine A Bleak Future Without Humans • Discoverology

Artists Create Incredible Model Sets To Imagine A Bleak Future Without Humans

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In their haunting upcoming show, The City and Other Stories, US artists Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber imagine what the world might look like when we’re all gone. But these photographs aren’t images of real places; they’re model sets that they’ve built collaboratively at their studios in Brooklyn and Cincinnati.

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