Later, I asked Carl about his choice to put landscapes in his forensic reconstructions. I’d never seen another artist do it. “I’ve had other people, who are in the industry who are paid forensic artists, say, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t be putting backgrounds in there, and making them all colorful.’ And I said, ‘Well, the whole point is to try to get people to look.’ You can make something very technically accurate and make all the fine details perfect. But if people aren’t going to look at it, then there’s no point in putting it out there. The idea is to make something so visually appealing that
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