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Artificial Paradise
Miami is both naturally tropical and deliberately theatrical. The ocean, palms and wildlife are real; around them exists a human-designed version of paradise built through architecture, color, fashion and spectacle. Nature and design begin imitating one another until it becomes unclear whether Miami was designed to resemble paradise or whether the modern idea of paradise was redesigned to resemble Miami. The shell remains the quiet counterargument: a natural architecture more intricate than almost anything humans build, yet designed by no architect.
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The question behind the painting
Why do we work so hard to manufacture paradise when nature already created it?
The shell in this work
From Florida, Remembered in Dreams · a study in Tidal Surrealism.