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Honeymoon Suites
- Artist
- Penelope Umbrico
- Date
- 2003
- Publisher
- self published
- Format
- Artists' Books
- Size
- 14.5 × 10 × 0.9 cm
- Length
- 24
These images of horizons are taken from honeymoon resort brochures depicting happy-just-married-couples in their honeymoon suites. I used only the candy-colored horizons, as seen through the windows in these idealized places. The false color in the original source material reveals the constructed notion of romance through marketing. Referencing the landscapes of Hiroshi Sugimoto, my horizons are a kind of global travel, but through the absurdity of the marketing of love. In the context of the honeymoon resort, while signifying perfect love and escape, the horizon actually points to the ultimate un-attainability of both. Postcard book.
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