The tourist approaches the island anticipating a great escape. As they arrive, they are greeted by a guide, she is paradise-the architect.
In the ‘Visions of Paradise’ series the viewer becomes voyeur, traveling with Paradise through imagined landscape. As Paradise explores the vernacular of tourist economy, she acts simultaneously as guide and protector. She is not native, nor is she foreign-she shapeshifts as she explores the slippery complexities of tourism (contemporary colonialism). Paradise as a persona is the embodiment of elements of imagined landscape, she appears only in photographs created as reproductions of iconic tourism advertisements from the 1970's-90's, known as "the golden era" of tourism. Every item in the photograph is created by Lynne, as she embodies the Paradise character.
In the ‘Visions of Paradise’ series the viewer becomes voyeur, traveling with Paradise through imagined landscape. As Paradise explores the vernacular of tourist economy, she acts simultaneously as guide and protector. She is not native, nor is she foreign-she shapeshifts as she explores the slippery complexities of tourism (contemporary colonialism). Paradise as a persona is the embodiment of elements of imagined landscape, she appears only in photographs created as reproductions of iconic tourism advertisements from the 1970's-90's, known as "the golden era" of tourism. Every item in the photograph is created by Lynne, as she embodies the Paradise character.
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Installation, 2017
Latex 7.5ft x 11ft banner, cement, cinder block, glass
Latex 7.5ft x 11ft banner, cement, cinder block, glass