Whitehirst Manor Drive

This photograph presents a layered image of a quintessential suburban landscape with a concrete driveway in the foreground, a sidewalk, a bright green lawn, pruned trees, various shrubs, and an ominous grey sky that fills the background. But a key element of the suburban dream is missing from the picture. Through Adobe Photoshop software, Prahl removes the grand-scale house. He also adds the sky and accentuates other details, many of them appearing, falsely, to be real. Akin to Georges Seurat’s technique of applying small touches of paint in his pointillist paintings to build an image, Prahl uses a painstaking, highly meticulous creative process of subtracting and adding information to produce a final image. These works take up to nine months complete.