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.
That’s from Landscapes for the People, an unexpected pairing of romanticized wallpaper with everyday environments:
Sometimes the peculiar draw of the functional juxtaposed with the aspirational makes it appealing. As for physical space in need of human landscapes, photographer Mark Lyon is spot on.
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