Industrial Landscapes

Macroscopic industrial landscapes, a history not known to many and

noticed by few. Once proud and sturdy steel refined from the earth, fired,

melted, pulverized and bent into an assortment of devices, implemented

for a myriad of functions. Bastions of our technological achievements.

Fused together to form machines as massive and minute as our

imaginations allow. Erecting, destroying, fixing, pushing and pulling what

we alone could never budge. As time wears on they bear the marks of

tasks concluded, scored, gouged and run relentless until their existence

ceases.

Afterwards, rediscovered as they progress to their fundamental states,

abstracted from recognizable objects into painterly color field studies.

Transformed from heaps of rusting eyesores and public topics of municipal

waste into vibrant color and textural explorations, captivating a beauty

previously unknown.

A seemingly problematic blotch on most landscapes has become a

landscape onto itself, in some instances resembling the raw geography

from which its elements were extracted.

Defiant of traditional realms of beauty these photographs symbolize the

mundane and everyday ugliness that holds a unique history, and when

taken out of the context of its original purpose, displays an intriguing

plane of vivid color, depth and detail. Initially absorbed on identifying

precisely what the objects are, soon gives way to an acceptance of the

image. Curious thoughts then forfeit the viewer’s formal preconceptions

and the need for recognition.