How to Photograph an Idea
The shapes are such that they are clearly revealed in light.
-Le Corbusier
Towards a New Architecture
In the current age we are more than ever surrounded by the man made material form. These geometries appear over and again in architecture and the design of everyday objects: cube, sphere, cylinder, pyramid. The five photographs presented here come from an evolving body of work that explores these shapes photographically through a semi-plastic process. They are shaped by hand and held in the sun until their latent geometry emerges. Produced without the aid of a camera, they are at once something and nothing. Not the photograph of a cube, but perhaps the photograph of the geometry that signals the cube. Their literal message is unmistakable, but the range of possible attributable meanings is almost endless.
