My work deals with the ideas of non-place within the urban landscape. I try to make the viewer pause and notice areas that they would normally walk past while getting from one area to another. By centrally framing the image I am taking the area out of context, disconnecting it from the everyday. I try and give the empty non-places an importance, similar to that of a religious scene within a Renaissance painting. The central idea behind my work is that we live at the end of an era. Our culture has lot its confidence; confidence in religion, in industry, in the cultural and political idealism shared by many in the sixties and seventies and, I feel on some level, in the importance of the individual. Most significant for my work is the loss of confidence in art, in the belief that it can change and better society. Turning to these empty non-places quietly reflects this. | |
