City Grid series 2012 - 2013
By taking photos of the walls and faces of skyscrapers in New York and Miami, then combining these photos with painted and digitally painted grids and plaids I already have an abstract pattern without any aparent scale. Continuing, I ad photos of computer motherboards and other electronics, working towards the build up of a very dense grid. Some parts are then knocked back to create skyline shapes. This seems to end up a little bit slick like the buildings themselves, and a little bit rough like a fabric.
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City Grid Piece 4 - detail
| 2012
| piece 31 x 48
| 1 of 8
Makes me think of the work of Hundertwasser. Made from scans of my painted surfaces and digitally made patterns.
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City Grid Piece 7
| 2012
| 31 x 48
| 2 of 8
see piece 4
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City Grid, Night in Miami
| 2013
| 80 x 84
| 3 of 8
From the Art Deco of South Beach to the Modernism of downtown, more of a feel of an actual place in this one.
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City Grid Night
| 2012
| 40 x 60
| 4 of 8
Manhattan, mid town and down town, but mostly made up.
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City Grid Grey Weave
| 2012
| 25 x 140
| 5 of 8
working towards a fabric feel. A twelve foot long scarf?
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computer parts skyline day-night
| 2012
| 20 x 80
| 6 of 8
If you look hard enough (at full scale) you can see the skyline made of computer parts photographed in the studio.
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computer parts skyline grey
| 2012
| 56 x 140
| 7 of 8
a variation
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computer parts skyline white
| 2012
| 40 x 100
| 8 of 8
Another variation, going for a squinty realism.
