CONTACT Michael Gee |
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My images depict scenes of decay, the result of human neglect over a period of time. Each photograph works alongside the other to provide a sense of narrative accumulating in the final consumption of one’s self in the disorder of their surroundings. Within the images are contradicting signs: an almost anal sense of order against a deficiency of concern. The extremely defined close up image of the peeling wallpaper navigates the viewer’s thoughts to notions of layers, nostalgia and revealing of the past. The neglected plant which takes second place to a phone being charged questions our hierarchal care for objects. This image also serves as a divide between previous scene with the similarly toned bathroom corner, a nod to Jeff Wall’s Diagonal Composition series. The decomposing objects laid out as they are against the unclean surface provide a feeling of awkwardness and uncertainty. Finally we see the accumulation of these extremities taking its toll in a sea of compositional and contrasting reflections. |