Cambridge Road Estate, Hope, Despair, Faith and Love is an ongoing book of images exploring the relationship and love between my partner and I, Hannah, who is currently studying in Bristol. I live in London on the Cambridge Road Estate.
Photos of quietude and humanness, implicit and explicit beauty found in the everyday, question and reveal the profound distance love can travel and the beauty which surrounds us. These photos are intended to function as devices of reflection, as poetry, so please interpret however you wish.
Although the estate is not the main concern of the work, it does however serve an important metaphorical function.
The estate is currently undergoing transformation, it is happening as we speak. The whole estate is being re-developed into new and “affordable” homes. To be rebuilt anew, the whole of the estate as we once knew it will be destroyed before it can be reborn.
This cycle of transformation, of life and death one could say, reminds us of the cycle of life. The nature of the universe and our existence. It surrounds us everyday, and it is the awareness of this cycle which makes life so valuable and one which I hope to express with these images.
Despair, hope, faith and love. The cycle of life.
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For those who require a rational explanation of where and how the work explores these ideas, look to the humanity and explicit beauty seen in the images of Hannah. Think of questions such as: What function does beauty serve? Why are we attracted to beautiful things, places and people? What is the value in beauty?
Look to what could be crudely defined as an “ugly” form of beauty: A stain on a bus floor, which somehow looks satisfying to the eye when photographed, still. A period stain on sheets makes explicit something many of us would prefer to ignore, but nevertheless an integral and perhaps even beautiful and astonishing part of life when one considers the miracle that is the complexity of our body and its systems.
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Poetry is far from rationality, it is irrational - emotional. It is more so felt than understood. This way of understanding if you will, is a very non-western form of understanding, but one I believe to be superior in matters of art, and perhaps beyond. It is for this reason that I intend for the images to be seen as poetry, not as instruments or instruction, but as devices which can be used to think and feel.
How far does love stretch?
Across, stars, seas and skies?
London to Bristol, and vice versa?
This project is dedicated to Hannah
Photos of quietude and humanness, implicit and explicit beauty found in the everyday, question and reveal the profound distance love can travel and the beauty which surrounds us. These photos are intended to function as devices of reflection, as poetry, so please interpret however you wish.
Although the estate is not the main concern of the work, it does however serve an important metaphorical function.
The estate is currently undergoing transformation, it is happening as we speak. The whole estate is being re-developed into new and “affordable” homes. To be rebuilt anew, the whole of the estate as we once knew it will be destroyed before it can be reborn.
This cycle of transformation, of life and death one could say, reminds us of the cycle of life. The nature of the universe and our existence. It surrounds us everyday, and it is the awareness of this cycle which makes life so valuable and one which I hope to express with these images.
Despair, hope, faith and love. The cycle of life.
...
For those who require a rational explanation of where and how the work explores these ideas, look to the humanity and explicit beauty seen in the images of Hannah. Think of questions such as: What function does beauty serve? Why are we attracted to beautiful things, places and people? What is the value in beauty?
Look to what could be crudely defined as an “ugly” form of beauty: A stain on a bus floor, which somehow looks satisfying to the eye when photographed, still. A period stain on sheets makes explicit something many of us would prefer to ignore, but nevertheless an integral and perhaps even beautiful and astonishing part of life when one considers the miracle that is the complexity of our body and its systems.
...
Poetry is far from rationality, it is irrational - emotional. It is more so felt than understood. This way of understanding if you will, is a very non-western form of understanding, but one I believe to be superior in matters of art, and perhaps beyond. It is for this reason that I intend for the images to be seen as poetry, not as instruments or instruction, but as devices which can be used to think and feel.
How far does love stretch?
Across, stars, seas and skies?
London to Bristol, and vice versa?
This project is dedicated to Hannah