Seems like such a waste to me... but I guess this definitely fits in the "whatever floats your boat" category.

DeafAviator

What I'm wondering though is WHY are the dioramas destroyed??

I'm guessing, but the piece says she doesn't build the diorama as a display piece, but to be photographed from particular vantage. It's like a set you'd design for television. Once she's taken the photo, the "show" is done. Tear it down and start another one.

I've seen a similar behavior in model railroaders. After years of building a layout for the Santa Fe (or whatever railroad) in the (insert extremely specific region) during (insert extremely specific year), they'll run some operating sessions, then tear it all down--even the benchwork--and start over.

That reminds me of History Channel's series "LIFE AFTER PEOPLE" - I watched an episoe yesterday and they were showing a school in Detroit that's been closed for two years....no windows, peeling paint, falling plaster, plant life growing inside, etc.

Wow, great find Tim, those are beautiful dioramas!

I was kinda thinking Fallout and oddly 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' while looking at them.

Beautiful and somewhat depressing. Yes, it does sound strange coming from someone who mostly builds models of stuff designed to shoot people, blow them up, set them on fire, and otherwise do painful and unhealthy things to the human body. Still to me they're kinda melancholy and sad...  

What?! No skeletons??!!

Neat stuff there, Tim, thanks for the link. Maybe Bethesda Software could get some ideas for their next Fallout game from her.