Exhibited in the BDes2024 2nd Year Art Processes Exhibition
'Transitions'
2017
Pencil and photo collage
A4 flipbook and 3 x cropped A1 panels
After witnessing the destruction of 5 suburban cottages in the wake of a new 7-storey medium-density development, this became a personal and challenging factor towards ideas previously explored regarding construction and development. Through critical evaluation and photographic documentation, our city can be understood as districts with definable characteristics and identities. Following my journey from Como, the bush land fringe of Sydney to the dense centre of the city, the distinctive transitions between these districts are rapidly diminishing. The train window has been used as a framing device from which the characteristics of place and noticeable growth in development are emphasised along with the flip-book format. Subtracting elements and the closer examination of the 5 houses via layering technical architectural drawings and photo collaging, further emphasise the development within our built environment for better or worse. What is symbolised is the effect of rapid development on our districts by representing the closing gap between these transitions and dissipating divisive identities within our urban landscape.
