First Project

What I took from the assignment on Robert Smithson. That he created these industrial relics he found and re-images them as “monuments”. He also writes of imagining time being sped up and watching ruins extend upwards as architecture falls down describing the paranormal as containing “ruins in reverse”. Modern buildings became old and deter rated before they are even finished. He mentions the effects of a place on a person. The notion of a concrete jungle. I came up with the concept when I re-visited the carpark that we went to see with Sean. I took pictures from the roof top and came up with this idea. I found this housing estate, so interesting there was gates surrounding them nearly sectioning them off from the city. When I look back on my pictures these people look blank, as if they are physically there but they have no emotion towards their homes they are merely there. I captured poses of people almost looking out in a way longing for an escape. So I photoshopped the people in black and white. Almost like they are forgotten about behind the gates away from the city. I wanted to create the aspect of monuments the people are so small in comparison they are insignificant so they fade to black and white. They are almost forgotten about when entering the gate- INCLOSED.