#peter garfield

[thesteftones]

hai it wife i commission you a spider-man drawing for TEN kisses… if too cheap let me know

hmmmm...yes okay pay up wife!

your two goobers ina messy drawing for you

[zegalba]

Peter Garfield: Mobile Homes (1996)

[aconissa]

René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees, 1959 / Peter Garfield, Mobile Home (Dusk), 1995

[naiveatlas]

[lickorice]

safe from Peter Garfield’s Mobile Homes

[kosmia]

Peter Garfield, Mobile Homes, 1995 - 2007

In his "Mobile Homes" series Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Peter Garfield creates tiny, perfectly rendered models of mobile and suburban tract homes. He then flings them in the air and carefully photographs them against the backdrop of a vast sky. They veer wildly in the air, giving the impression that they've been swept up in a tornado, a sense that is heightened by the grainy film-still quality of the dynamic photographs and popular associations with films such as The Wizard of Oz and Twister. In fact, the photos contain no indicators of the real scale of the models so that an unsuspecting viewer might be convinced they were taken straight from an amateur's camera. The way that Garfield contrasts the recognizable reality of suburbia with these strange paranormal phenomena leaves a viewer feeling slightly anxious and thoroughly curious.

[unchildhood]

FRANZ KAFKA x PETER GARFIELD

A letter to Ottille Kafka featured in Letters to Ottla and the Family (1909 - 1924);

Detail from Mobile Home (Dusk) (1995), photography, not manipulated

[ohthisisgood]

©Peter Garfield / Mobile Homes