Cacti and California houses rendered in Caroline Larsen's very unique style

Remember Caroline Larsen, the artist responsible for weaving huge flaming car crashes and expanses of smoking tarmac not out of needle and thread but with oil paints on canvas? She’s back with a new project, and this time she’s set her unique method to recreating the fronts of California houses, complete with luscious greenery, grey sidewalks and succulents. Lots of succulents. Imagine if you took Joan Didion’s California essays and David Hockney’s swimming pools and combined them with the help of a truckload of plasticine, and that comes somewhat close to channelling the mood that permeates Caroline’s novel works. They’re weird and fun, and they score ten out of ten for technique.