Sirens

‘Sirens’ is a series that discusses the nature of colour in space and how the former can influence our perception of the latter. Red became the colour I started focusing on due to its power on behaviour as a stimulus for response and its connotations with danger and alarm.

I shot the work the way I have, with barren landscapes, to further enhance this sinister impression.
The spaces are those most of us have experienced and can relate to. Specific public spaces were chosen for their nature of being heavily populated; the tube station during rush hour, the hospital, a 24-hour supermarket. They are all congested spaces and with this shift of colour the viewer is urged to think of something more menacing.  A space which was previously recognisable has now adopted a new aesthetic. By subverting what we usually expect a space to look like creates a series of uncanny, isolated environments that have moved from interior landscape photographs to something that could be a documentation of an undefined, unknown event. What event it may be is left to the decision of the audience.

The work teases out paranoia about the fragile social fabric we live in. Whether it is in regards to the recent swine flu pandemic to the terror fears of recent times or possibly more apocalyptic, the viewer will be asked, what has happened here?
The use of the colour red questions our perception of space and due to its stark connotations and the landscapes vacancy ideas of isolation, evacuation and emergency are evoked.

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