Urban Fragments
It’s hard to define in a simple term what I’m looking at (or looking for) in these images of spaces. I like ‘liminal’, which derives from the latin word ‘limen’ and although it means a ‘threshold’ between the stages of life, could also denote where day meets night, or sunlight fades to shadow. ‘Interstital space’ is often heard in photography and refers to in-between areas, originally in organic cells but also by extension in the body of a city. Elements of both these concepts are explored here.
A threshold exists where the built environment meets the natural, and where a human being - the bridge between the two - connects with each. Any change, that is the point at which two different things meet, could be considered a threshold: where a hand touches a wall, or the roof of a building is seen against the sky, or noise suddenly becomes silence. Perhaps also the threshold at which a memory is almost lost, but not quite.
Many of these photographs are occupied with the tension between the constructed environment and the natural environment it has supplanted, and with the relationship between humans and the large structures we have built. These not only dominate the environment but also overshadow the beings that created them.
