Facades: Portraits of New Orleans

Facades: Portraits of New Orleans is comprised of pictures and verse.

"Dirk Hine has been creating digital and web-specific art since 1994. Prior to digital work, he worked as a painter. Limited edition collections of graphic work that he has contributed to have been archived in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate Gallery (London), and other leading museums; his web-specific work has been profiled on ZDTV.

Of Facades the artist says, 'To be here is to enter a world that slips in and out of time, a world of decay and transcend[e]nt beauty. Structures set on an ancient grid lie derelict, dreaming in the subtropical heat. The brilliant light of mid-day reveals brick and stucco drenched in muggy pinks and brilliant scarlet, facades broken only by shuttered casements and the cast-iron grillwork of haunted balconies. These are not idealized structures. Their beauty is of another sort, composed of cracks, stains, and layers of peeling paint, an aesthetics of erosion and neglect.'" -- from Facades, Biography