PATTERNS AND TONES

"Griffith Observatory, No. 1" 2014 Lately I have been capturing and creating what I call Sun Shadows . I have been particularly drawn to photographing shadows cast by railings and the geometric patterns they make while interacting with staircases. The steps break the bold shadows into repetitive patterns which create a lovely abstract arrangement.  As I changed their color profile to greyscale, the images began to flatten  out from 3 dimensional lines, into a 2 dimensional plane. If you can remove the initial recognition of the object and let the abstract shapes wash over you, you may begin to see what I mean.  The images are constructed from a form built out of a functional object.  Only the change in scale and frequency of lines give the illusion of the image receding,  reminiscent of the De Stijl or Neo-plasticism artistic movement that came out of the Netherlands in 1917.   Although...