Abstract Realities
New millennium architecture shines in this future-built world. Each building or structure standing before us like a brand-new trophy upon the city’s mantlepiece. Sometimes soulless, at times intimidating, these architectural statements are forever cemented into our work, rest and play environments. Our interaction with them is often a one-way dialogue. —The representation of an architects single minded utopian vision to be recognised as a non-negotiable entire entity. I’ve never believed that someone’s autocratic creation ends there. Just as I have never accepted that what I am looking at is not all there is to see.
By using architecture and its many facades as a point of inspiration, my photographic work in abstraction presents a way for me to capture a sense of intimacy in structures, revealing themselves like hidden personalities from the shadows, (there alter egos if you will). In some ways the abstract approach I have taken is a paradox, as I subtract information from the image in the form of representation, time and place in order to reveal more and come closer to what is unseen, revealing another layer beneath the surface view.
