“Up” is one of our first truths. It tells us where we are in the world. We base our sense of reality on. Of course, up is relative and an illusion of perspective but one we seem to need to maintain as we tumble, blindly through space. The objects in these photographs, building on the skyline of New York City, are familiar, visual cliché’s. The aesthetics of architecture ask us to view them from one perspective and photographs of buildings, historically, are desperate to maintain this viewpoint. In this work, simple changes of composition transform the otherwise familiar landscape into an interplay of abstract and geometric forms. In the mind’s attempt to discern “up” millions of tons of steel and concrete appear to become unmoored. Released from a prescribed perspective we can reconsider the aesthetics of architecture while ignoring the laws of physics and our nagging sense of reality.
