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Peter Garfield's Falling Houses
by Jennifer Dalton


*Orbit* by Jennifer Cecere

Artist Peter Garfield's photographs appear to represent actual, full-size houses flying through the air. Viewed from below, the houses seem to have been ripped from their foundations.


*White Male Guilt* by Peter Illig

Garfield uses carefully constructed models to achieve the illusion, and until recently, had never tried to hide that fact. But without actually trying, his work has fooled many of his viewers, including reviewers who have written about his work.


*False Door* by Beatrice M. Mady

So the artist decided to take the concept one step further, and created an elaborate false documentation of his "process," including photographs of a fake construction crew with cranes lifting and dropping the houses.


*Barns* by Richard Gombar

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