Abstract

Spiral Staircase

Blue

Sinister

Retro

It’s in the eye of the beholder, they say. It started off as a wall with panels in various shades of blue, you know, fairly boring… but I had other ideas. I was going through a phase of experimenting in photoshop with duplicating then rotating and flipping images to interact with itself to create patterns and movement. I decided that for this one I would not use just one image; I’d use many images of the same wall to create a new art work.

The Darling Harbour Woodward Water Feature, otherwise known as the Spiral Fountain is a water feature near the Sydney Convention Centre. This photographic artwork was one of the first studies I undertook utilising a singe image multiple times to alter the visual aesthetic and the viewer experience whilst preserving the original photograph.

When I made this piece, I was fascinated at how a single repeated image can interact with itself in such a way that it completely transforms both the visual aesthetic and the feeling it gives the viewer. By duplicating, twisting, flipping and overlaying a once mundane, every day scene, it changes into something more, yet the base image is almost completely unidentifiable.

For me, this piece exudes something sinister. Perhaps a vampiric vortex that you are drawn to but you know you must stay away from; stare at it for too long and you may get sucked in.

The artwork will evoke an emotion, a feeling or a meaning unique to each individual viewer.

One part 70’s retro and one part abstract photography. This piece is the exploration of a single image interacting with clones of itself, uniformly placed and then randomly rotated.

The original image is a top-down shot of a small black box on top of an iPad with an orange cover resting on top of an orange Ikea storage box.

It’s shagadelic, baby!