Description
It is hard to identify exactly what defines the urban, its people, its buildings, the cultures that interact within its boundaries. These are all elements that construct and characterize the core of the metropolitan. Lost in between my photographs are found.
Exposed are cross-sections of our physical domestic and urban environments, filled with diverse, colorful elements in various stages of neglect, decay and regeneration. Transformed by processes of rain, sunlight, oxidization and mundane use, they bear scratches, scoring and rust; revealing a passage of time where there is no allusion to reality.
Discovery is situated in the imperfect and deficient through a juxtaposition of colours, lines, and textures, our everyday environs are abstracted into obscure, colour-field landscapes. Gates, pots and pans, machines, factories, walls and domestic detritus transform into
vibrant, macro surface explorations, captivating an aesthetic previously ignored. Embodying the ordinary and everyday ugliness each with its own unique history, each a piece of our corporeal and ever changing human environment.
I am fascinated by the way our lived environment is constantly transformed though a myriad of human uses and the ensuing physical and chemical changes that result of this use; particularly in the minute or often overlooked objects that fill the space around us. Each alley, dumpster, cupboard and corner holds its own ineffable story. Absent of signs, symbols, and artifacts, my images compel people to construct narratives through confrontation with visual stimuli, extracting meaning by forging connections between the autonomic process of sight and the cognitive act of perception. Each interpretation varies, linking colors and textures with individual experiences, emotions, personal history and culture. Once logical perception is allowed to subside, viewers create their own narratives; breathing new life into the ugly, invisible and unknown.
