In assembling a portfolio for FOTOQuest this week I took the opportunity to revisit last year's Elevations theme. In looking through my new images from 2010 I could see that this theme had had started to drive a lot of my shooting. Here's the artist statement for the new set:
An elevation is an architectural drawing of the outside of a building, illustrating the proportions of its facade. The drawing is an orthographic projection (onto imaginary ground glass) of a structure that does not yet exist. It is a representation of intent that orders the reality that will be constructed, but its idealized perspective will not be experienced in life.
In the reverse process, the camera flattens four dimensional experience to a two dimensional image that is true, yet unreal. By virtue of their unreality, their inability to get past the surface of things, photographs can demonstrate an order that is present but not apparent in life. In a further sense of the word “elevate”, the photograph can frame an ordinary scene as an illustration of symmetry, pattern, hierarchy, symbols, and other forms of order.
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