This image by Alex Prager is at once bubblegum cutesy and Lynchian in its eeriness. The artist’s work with all its Technicolor brights and unnervingly smooth, preened “perfection” draws from classic film, fashion photography and the bright lights and gaudiness of her home city. “I find my inspiration in the city of Los Angeles,” she has said. “It’s a strange picture of perfection—but there is an eerie monotony that creeps in. It can slowly drive a person crazy, that sense of unease under the surface of all this beauty and promise.” Like in Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, not all is as it seems in her work, for all the glitz and glamour something feels rather wrong.
