Photography is in the middle of as radical a transformation as painting went through in the nineteenth century, when many of its traditional functions were supplanted by photographs.
--sophisticated mobile phone cameras allow users to create excellent pictures, without user post-processing, at the press of a finger
--several billion photos are uploaded daily to the internet, making it difficult for any given image to be noticed, and
--AI already allows users to create photorealistic images by typing a description.
I see this series as transformative in several ways:
--as an exploration of a possible direction for creating non-realistic photographic art,
--the background texture in each image is a digital transformation that uncovers otherwise invisible colors and patterns in weathered metal walls
--the images blended into the texture substrate are collages of photographs of spaces referenced in the titles.
