Laura Adel Johnson is a multimedia artist who constructs portraits out of miniature lights.

Two years ago, she found herself inspired by gaudy yet strangely beautiful holiday displays. She began using this medium primarily to depict catalog models, feeling the artificiality of the lights was a fitting representation for the subject matter.

I love the way the illuminated tears spill to the ground and run together in glowing pools. The idea of “crying light” is somehow beautiful to me.

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