| Matthew Propst: |
| I
enjoy looking for extra ordinary textures in structures, which
contribute to palettes when cropped. Many of these shots were taken to
conceive local aesthetics in a Deleuzian concept of differentiating
deterritorialisation. That is, I enjoy slicing the abstract out of the
ordinary. My influences include: Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Richard
Prince, Aaron Siskin, and Miles Davis.
My intent with these prints would be to inoculate the viewer with a sense of the minute as integral to a larger perspective. This reflects the human experience to construct identity while contributing to the enhancement of a global social sculpture. Secondly, these prints represent age in progress. I draw a connection from these structures’ colors and textures to the human characteristic of maturation. The other, more formal images of landscape operate individually, and were recorded over various times and places sequenced in my experiences photographing and living in my native North Carolina, New York City and now, Beaufort. |