This is where I play football….

F.C. Glynde

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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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Shower Rooms

The Process of Cleansing is a dirty one.

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Chatham Town F.C.

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Snow Days

Wendy’s Wardrobe

Tyred of the Cold

Sick of the Cold

Cars

Vawn

If I call this image “Anal Sex” I am told I might get more hits on Google

Building/Snow/Footprints/Manhole Covers/Iron Girders

Footprints

Staples

Car seats with some snow on them with a bag of rubbish leaning up against them……….

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Untitled

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The thing I found interesting about these scenes what the potential for the locations to be a lot more sinister than what they actually are. The house had been gutted by developers for renovations but looks like some arson aftermath.

With the garage at sundown I thought it looked a pretty grim setting for a murder or something ugly.

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Colour in Space: National Art Library @ V&A

Further Investigations….

How does this make you feel? Comments please.

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Golden Lane Est, EC1.

Another way of approaching colour and space, and how this affects human behaviour.

This is a document of colour and its use in society.

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Colour in Space (Cont)

…tests continue….

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Colour in Space

Doctor Surgery Waiting Area