Quietly Subversive : 2017
I've lived in a city all my life however in a part of London that used to be largely farmland and forests. Its interesting to look closely at the built up landscape and find that despite its concrete beauty there is plant life growing in the cracks. Therefore I used a piece wood as my canvas to symbolize the canvas of the city being nature and printed my digital negative onto the surface using analogue processes.
I often feel like this is a metaphor for city dwellers especially in the rise of gentrification. It often feels as though we get vilified for wanting to stay in the communities where we grew up, for examples the treatment of the Grenfell Tower survivors and police brutality towards young people. However seeing what are considered to be weeds growing out of hard places always gives me hope.
I often feel like this is a metaphor for city dwellers especially in the rise of gentrification. It often feels as though we get vilified for wanting to stay in the communities where we grew up, for examples the treatment of the Grenfell Tower survivors and police brutality towards young people. However seeing what are considered to be weeds growing out of hard places always gives me hope.