This was created as an artistic response to the 2002 theatre in decay play A Knock at your Door, written by Robert Reid.
" A Knock at Your Door is a performance spanning two hundred years of shady characters, corrupt unions and underworld dealings. Our city’s ghosts lead you through a history Melbourne tries to keep hidden." (from the company’s press release)
It was constructed as a chapter cover for a book that never was.
This is a digital composite created in Photoshop from a number of straight photographs.
beautiful abstraction and after reading the description this really captures a mood of the history of corruption. I also love the way you add text in so subtle so as to be part of the image and not distract from it.
Thank you! I felt it important to mention the show, since it was a repsonce to it, but also to give the viewer a little more information about the image itself. I think it works best with that context. The ghosts in the play were built out of newspaper, and so during the run started getting tattered and wearing away, and I wanted that element in the work as well. And again with the text, it was important to have it in there, but I didn’t want it to be the most important part of the image.
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beautiful abstraction and after reading the description this really captures a mood of the history of corruption. I also love the way you add text in so subtle so as to be part of the image and not distract from it.
Thank you! I felt it important to mention the show, since it was a repsonce to it, but also to give the viewer a little more information about the image itself. I think it works best with that context. The ghosts in the play were built out of newspaper, and so during the run started getting tattered and wearing away, and I wanted that element in the work as well. And again with the text, it was important to have it in there, but I didn’t want it to be the most important part of the image.