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To complete the Art History project I did last year, we had to choose an art movement and base a photographic project on it. I chose Abstract Expressionism, as I loved the bright colours and the narrative of emotions you could get from the work.
During this project I also looked at using water and clingfilm in a scanner to created abstract textures. This image is several peices of clingfilm coloured differently and placed together randomly in photoshop.
The cathedral is located in the Cathedral Hill neighbourhood of San Francisco, California. The present cathedral replaced one (1891-1962) of the same name. The cathedral was designed by local architects John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney, collaborating renown architects Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi — at the time, the Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT.
Its saddle roof is composed of eight segments of hyperbolic paraboloids, in such a fashion that the bottom horizontal cross section of the roof is a square and the top cross section is a cross.
In 2017, Architecture Digest named it one of the 10 most beautiful churches in the United States.