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A concrete parking barrier sits on a gravel ground in front of a large mural. The painting depicts a desert landscape with scrubby bushes and red rock mountains under a pale sky. A small sign in the top left reads “15 MINUTE MAX”.

Jeremiah Ariaz

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Date
20 April 2011

In an effort to question our changing relationship with nature, photographer Jermiah Ariaz has documented the points at which natural and man-made environments merge. The images highlight an overwhelming irony – murals depict the natural habitats the walls have previously displaced – illustrating, Ariaz says, “our distance from, yet longing for, Arcadia, the imagined rural paradise.”

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Alex Moshakis

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Alex originally joined It’s Nice That as a designer but moved into editorial and oversaw the It’s Nice That magazine from Issue Six (July 2011) to Issue Eight (March 2012) before moving on that summer.

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