False Lights

Series TitleDevil's Promenade

Artist Lara Shipley (American, born 1980)

Artist Antone Dolezal (American, born 1982)

Date2013

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 30 1/16 × 37 1/16 inches (76.35 × 94.13 cm)
Sheet: 36 × 38 15/16 inches (91.44 × 98.88 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.43.13

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Lara Shipley + Antone Dolezal 1/10"

Inscribednone

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 1/10

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DescriptionImage of a wooded area at night with a bright light shining in the distance.Gallery Label

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Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal staged this image to emulate the phenomenon of the Spook Light, an ominous orb said to appear at night in the woods at the end of a dark country road. The suggestive black-and-white image references the inconclusive imagery people have held up as evidence since the first sightings occurred in the late 1880s. “There are a lot of people who went out and made fictional photographs of the Spook Light,” said Shipley. “We wanted people to be thinking about that within our project as well.”

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