Valley of the Neon Dolls
The Electrifying Imagination of Parker Day
Welcome to the carnival lit world of Parker Day. Parker is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores identity and the masks we wear. Her fictionalized portraits are shocking, entertaining and soul-shifting. She presents her images without any photoshopping and shoots with 35 mm film. We end up with gritty, sensationalized characters.
Parker Day explains her work,”I believe identity is a malleable construct that we have the power to dismantle. Through my photography I explore the invention of identity. It’s that presence of true emotion that I’m looking to capture in the trappings of manufactured circumstance. I create my subjects as a reflection of me, of my moods and madness.”
It is a hyperreal world of LA’s weirdest and wildest imagined characters and it is no doubt Parker Day was, in her own words, “born and bred on the weird side of the road.” Her influences include David Lynch, Francis Bacon, and Weegee. Sounds like the beginning of something quite grand and deliciously demented. Find out more about her shows and the book ICONS at parkerdayphotography.com.
