The Park Central is one of Ocean Drive's most striking Art Deco hotels, the blue and white one, and the most conceptual piece in Charlotte's Structural Series. Using her signature multi layer photographic technique, Charlotte builds the artwork from her own photographs of the hotel and the life around it. The tall white façade rises through the frame, its Art Deco features carrying the composition: white vertical lines running straight up, white circles at the top, and the blue and mauve filling the center of the building. Octagonal windows sit in the band above the entrance. Then the building doubles. A close view of the façade is layered over itself like an echo, the hotel repeating, slightly shifted, the way an image returns when you try to hold it in your mind. Two palm trees frame the building, and a bright sun pushes light through the upper right half. Below, blue and white striped umbrellas spread across the lower third, recalling the blue of the façade, surrounded by loungers, palms, and people gathered in the sun. The name appears twice. Once in blue on the building, where it belongs, and once again across the very bottom, large and ghosted, less a sign than a memory of one. Look longer and the artwork keeps giving. The crowd below is full of small moments, someone you did not notice the first time. There is always another person to find. The result is not a photograph of The Park Central. It is The Park Central echoing in memory, the way a place stays with you after you have left it. This work is part of The Structural Series, Charlotte Fonne's ongoing exploration of Miami Beach's iconic Art Deco hotels, also featured in Lumas galleries worldwide. Each image in the composition is personally photographed by Charlotte, ensuring a genuine and unique piece. Signed, numbered, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Limited edition. Only 5 to 20 prints per size exist in the world.
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