Art of the Construction Site
Artist Statement:
Having an extensive background in Architecture, I have always had a fascination for construction sites: the energy, the chaos, the danger; the smell of wet concrete, sawn timber and freshly dug earth; the noisy carefree chattering of the labourers, the ear-splitting sound of metal against metal. The visuals created by scaffolding, danger tape, cranes, the geometric skyline and the inevitable abandoned broken workmen’s shoe.
For this body of work I have used original digital photographs that I took during the construction stage of the Durban Moses Mabhida Stadium. Working in Photoshop I have used computer technology as a contemporary artistic tool to decompose the original image, and through the process of sorting, layering and manipulating, the construction site has become my Theatre.
I have choreographed the horizontal, the vertical and the angular. I have layered texture over texture, and kept to a limited palette to create these theatrical but ethereal spaces. Here and there a human figure emerges, seemingly insignificant but essential to the process, to emphasize the scale and dominance of the built forms.
Here the construction site is a metaphor for the journey that is life: my photographs have captured the process rather than an image of the end.
'Solo'
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'Cantilever II'
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'Safety First'
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'Diagonal Deconstruction I'
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'Cantilever I'
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'Safety & Reflection'
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'The Beginning... or is it the End?'
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'Complexity II'
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'Red Crane'
