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The prints that
I create are a reflection on my views and love of the city. The work
is a celebration creating many of the areas and feelings that I gain
within this amazing piece of the world.
The city is a thriving explosion of power, movement, pattern, and life.
It is an open book, full of colour, perspective, and repetition. The
buildings that grow within it, towering above us all dwarf everything
around them, hold an amazing sense of respect. They stand so firm with
enormous, seemingly endless facades holding any number of tessellating
patterns. They still manage to create very quiet spaces, between one
another. Dark voids that take you away from the busy street only yards
away. These streets run into one another and eventually disappear into
the distance.
Recent work explores the contrasting surfaces, patterns, and perspective
within the city. I have looked at the relationship between the building
and their surroundings. This is especially interesting in construction
sites and areas that are showing some distress. Prints such as “Middleotwn”
focus on the tension between the smooth uprights, almost skeleton like
and the rough, broken surface of the iron in the foreground.
To enhance these surfaces and areas, I have used different qualities
of imagery to recapture this manmade tension. Creating this on a miniature
scale is best achieved by using the latest digital technology. It has
allowed me to create smooth areas of colour, such as silkscreen printing,
and link the crisp detail of photography seamlessly. It also allows
extraordinary detail on such a small scale.
Printing the images on a miniature scale brings another contrast. Creating
another dimension to the work. The structures that I work with tend
to be on a monolithic scale and give an enormous sense of power, giving
the passer-bye a real sense of our own minute scale in comparison. Flipping
these senses giving the viewer in the gallery environment, dominance
gives an intriguing illusion.
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