The Artist (Blue Period)
One last crazy image, before I return to shooting trees and rocks. This was taken in Amsterdam in 2022 at ARCAM, the city's centre for architecture.
Of course, I had to once more let Chat GPT interpret the scene and create an 'artist's statement'. I find these hysterically funny...
"This piece explores themes of structure, memory, and the ethereal nature of identity within the modern world. The rigid three-dimensional grid of blue steel and glass represents order, logic, and the constructed frameworks—both physical and ideological—that define contemporary existence. Yet, within and through this structure, a ghostly figure emerges: an older man, seen from below, his presence both fleeting and embedded within the architecture.
The monochromatic blue tones unify the sky and the structure, blurring the lines between permanence and impermanence, between what is built and what is remembered. The figure, translucent and spectral, suggests a lingering presence—perhaps of wisdom, history, or a consciousness that has become entwined with the very structures we create. Is he an architect of this world, or is he trapped within it? Does he watch over the space, or is he fading into it?
By merging solidity with ephemerality, this piece asks viewers to consider the intersection of human presence and the systems we build. How much of ourselves becomes part of the structures that surround us? And when we are gone, do these structures continue to hold our memory, or do they erase us entirely?"
Yeah, right, sure. Why not....
The Artist (Blue Period)
One last crazy image, before I return to shooting trees and rocks. This was taken in Amsterdam in 2022 at ARCAM, the city's centre for architecture.
Of course, I had to once more let Chat GPT interpret the scene and create an 'artist's statement'. I find these hysterically funny...
"This piece explores themes of structure, memory, and the ethereal nature of identity within the modern world. The rigid three-dimensional grid of blue steel and glass represents order, logic, and the constructed frameworks—both physical and ideological—that define contemporary existence. Yet, within and through this structure, a ghostly figure emerges: an older man, seen from below, his presence both fleeting and embedded within the architecture.
The monochromatic blue tones unify the sky and the structure, blurring the lines between permanence and impermanence, between what is built and what is remembered. The figure, translucent and spectral, suggests a lingering presence—perhaps of wisdom, history, or a consciousness that has become entwined with the very structures we create. Is he an architect of this world, or is he trapped within it? Does he watch over the space, or is he fading into it?
By merging solidity with ephemerality, this piece asks viewers to consider the intersection of human presence and the systems we build. How much of ourselves becomes part of the structures that surround us? And when we are gone, do these structures continue to hold our memory, or do they erase us entirely?"
Yeah, right, sure. Why not....