Nichole Paschal
Nichole Paschal was born and raised in Dallas, TX. She received a BFA in Studio Art from Texas State University in 2004 and an MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007. She continues to live and work in Savannah, GA as the Upper School Photography teacher at Savannah Country Day School.
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The Model Home
Growing up in the suburbs, I learned at an early age that things are not always as they seem. Constructed facades of happiness that hid unsettling truths, small and large, surrounded me. The idealism put upon suburbia, by some who build and live there, is sharply contrasted by its reality.
I employ model homes as symbols for the pretense of perfection that exists in suburbia. My interest is in the underlying tension that exists between these idealistic blank slates and the unknown futures
they hold.
Representing an idyllic expectation, model homes are part of a homebuyer’s blueprint to a better life. Many prospects lie ahead for a new homeowner, uncharted and untold. The Model Home recognizes the darker possibilities.
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