Expect Delays
In the familiar space of cities, construction zones are insistently visual. When I point my camera at a construction zone, my mind moves into a visual language. I look for balance, unity and rhythm in the relationships between construction materials. I'm open to the idea that this kind of visual thinking has value. If we can find harmony in a group of traffic cones, perhaps we can extend that perspective to the wider world. I'm willing to entertain the notion that engaging with shape will connect us to a place.
My collage process allows me to tease out the visual rhythms of these spaces, While construction zones don’t hold our memories and associations in the same way that architecture does, they hold a sense of past, present and future time. Construction zones are the forward momentum of cities made visible. In these collages, I present an exuberant and expansive view of the feeling that construction zones bring to urban space.