surreal scenarios : project
(in progress)
As a collagist, I initially began photographing structures with a very frontal, balanced perspective, in order to use these images in my architectural reconstructions and scenarios. Eventually i realized i loved viewing and capturing the structures in this straightforward way, with a face-to-face, honest gaze, and began to appreciate these photographs as stand-alone images. They were rather severe, but i felt a great and unexplainable tenderness for them.
Current projects are most always a continuation or variation of my obsession with structures as subject. Drawn to the historical and deteriorating, although the urbanized and cheerfully-colored can also be fascinating, I have slowly learned to accept the interference of modern devices (utility wires, trash bins, parked cars, flags) in my view. I am now beginning to incorporate elements of history and fantasy into the images with this project, Surreal Scenarios - to create an otherworldly environment reflecting my personal belief that the mundane can become magical with the right frame of mind.