Mourning Cloak. 2006

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Elegy. 2007

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Stolen Summer. 2006

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Spring Arm. 2007

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Golden Ash. 2008

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Summer Arm. 2007

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ROBERT and SHANA PARKEHARRISON have been collaborating for years in creating artistic photographs. The couple portrays our environmentally shattering world in a starkly poetic way. These photographs are meticulously fabricated using photomontage and painting techniques.

In their new work shot in color (they utilize their early technique of applying pigment by hand, directly to their large-scale prints), ROBERT and SHANA PARKEHARRISON continue to immerse themselves in myth, rituals, and the relationship between man, nature and technology.

“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” – by ROBERT PARKEHARRISON