Festive Light Movement
The long, grueling relationship between The Underground Cafe and myself continues. This small exhibition just for the festive period is more about having fun within my work. I have again focused on my photography work. Which I used to think was unlike me, but recently more and more things are catching my eye. The appeal is so strong that I have to take my camera absolutley everywhere. Which is more or less how this work exists.
There is a very expressive side to this project. I was stuck on a bus, on Princes St one night last December (2006) and thought that I should use the time productively. I noticed that with the German market and the amusements running alongside each other , that there was an even more noticeable ‘life’. Stuck in traffic and frustrated I played around with my camera and the capture motion of the lense. Leaving a big gap between the start and finish of the photograph, which really captures the idea of motion. I thought that there would perhaps be an element of humour involved by focusing on the red man of the traffic lights to show my frustration. Hypothetically, seeing red. The fact that they were in motion and I was not, furthers this idea of frustration.
A piece from the series
I felt that having the images in colour would be best in this scenario to really see how something that can be seen as being beautiful was in fact, sheer frustration.
