Simen Johan's photographic series reads like an off-kilter field guide. Giraffes lose their heads in the fog, louche primates debauch with domestic animals, and tapestry-like camouflage both conceals and dazzles. Climate, habitat, and species are fragmented and remixed. To create the vivid images in his long-running series, "Until the Kingdom Comes," Johan uses a grab bag of techniques and effects.
The near-life-sized images show animals in diverse locations: nature preserves, zoos, and dioramas at natural-history museums. Some take years to complete, involving intricate set building and post-production work. Others are mashups of multiple images of animals in various habitats, locations, and seasons. A few are simply straight photographs. It can be hard to know exactly what you are looking at, and that is just as the artist wants it.
In the Clouds: The giraffes were photographed at different zoos; the background mixes Iceland with Turkey. It just made sense to stick their heads in the clouds. Photography speaks the language of natural vision. It is the closest thing to reality, except for film.There is a certain amount of visual problem-solving required to decipher these puzzling images. In the 1999 paper "The Science of Art," neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran and philosopher William…
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