Showing posts with label Provo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Provo. Show all posts
Closed For Business
As some of you may know, I've been working on a documentary project on Provo, UT off and on for about 2 years now. A couple months ago I moved out of Provo to a neighboring city called Orem, and haven't been back much since then. I was finally able to go back for a few hours this week and this is one of the resulting images. What do you think?
What once used to be...
Slowly (quickly in the case of Provo) small town America is disappearing. During the nearly 2 years that I have lived here almost half of Downtown Provo has been destroyed to put up fancy convention centers and other crap, and everybody just goes on with their lives like it was never there. But you know what? It's rather depressing to go downtown and walk past gaping holes that used to be somebody's former business; somebody's life, just to be replaced with "beautiful" hunks of steel and glass. It makes me sick. If you can't tell, I took a walk around downtown this evening, and then I found this image I took a few weeks ago and it kinda set me of a little...
Incase You Missed It...
I recently had some photographs in a group photo exhibit from a project I have been working on. For those of you who missed it, here are the images and my artist statement. There will be more images from this project to follow as I continue working on it... Enjoy
Remnants of the Past
My eye has always been attracted to the old, the worn out and the abandoned. Whether it be an old building or a car that has been sitting for decades on the side of the road, there's something magical about the colors and shapes nature intrudes upon the man-made.
"The taint of age can be very beautiful. The wreckage of man-made objects is something more beautiful than the new. Rust and weathering adds a patina of . . . well, I call it 'elegant [crap]' or 'elegant gorp'." -Brett Weston
As I have study the objects I photograph they lead me to wonder how it was they reached this decayed state, who it was that left them to become this way and why? To me there is a rich history, which cannot fully be known, but must be preserved before it disappears forever.
Remnants of the Past
My eye has always been attracted to the old, the worn out and the abandoned. Whether it be an old building or a car that has been sitting for decades on the side of the road, there's something magical about the colors and shapes nature intrudes upon the man-made.
"The taint of age can be very beautiful. The wreckage of man-made objects is something more beautiful than the new. Rust and weathering adds a patina of . . . well, I call it 'elegant [crap]' or 'elegant gorp'." -Brett Weston
As I have study the objects I photograph they lead me to wonder how it was they reached this decayed state, who it was that left them to become this way and why? To me there is a rich history, which cannot fully be known, but must be preserved before it disappears forever.
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