Emerald Garden Laundromat, from the series Landscapes for the People, 2008

Photographer Mark Lyon's inspiration stems from finding and documenting peculiar juxtapositions in everyday places. This process often involves the act of rephotographing photographs. His series Landscapes for the People looks at the use of romanticized wallpaper landscape photographs found in everyday environments. These wall-sized photographic murals seem to serve a psychological function, given their potentially intimidating or banal locations, like dental rooms and laundromats. These landscape murals allow the viewer an alternate mindset to nerve-racking procedures or the mundane activities of everyday life.

Photographs from Landscapes for the People use the peculiar relationship between found images and operative items, documenting the strange play of the functional environment and the idealized psychological landscape.

Pigment Print
Image Size: 13 13/16 x 20 inches
Paper Size: 16 x 21 3/8 inches
Edition of 25 + 4 AP
Signed and numbered by the artist

Mark Lyon (b. 1979, Rochester, New York) received his BA in Art Education and MA in Art Studio from SUNY New Paltz. In 2008, he received a Fellowship from The Center for Photography at Woodstock. Currently, Lyon is teaching art and photography at Beacon High School in upstate New York.