As I trawl my photographic
archives I find more and more images of closed doors, gates, shutters and so
on. Here are some more
examples. These were taken over
the last three years in Leicester, Nottingham and Grimsby. There’s somewhat less textual content in some of these
but still bags of formal and textural interest.
Clearly, it’s a subject
category to which I’ve been drawn for a while without thinking about very
consciously. Maybe, I’ve tended to
focus on what’s on the surface within their frames, - regarding them as found
images, whilst disregarding the implications of their function as barriers or
blocked portals. I don’t want to
go into it all too deeply right now, but there’s a lot that might be explored
around themes of privacy, security, exclusion, indifference, lack of engagement
and denial of access or opportunity, amongst much else.
It’s a typical example of
the coming together of a visual motif with a set of associations that can also
relate to a wider external context.
This process often causes me to regard something that’s been in the
background for ages with renewed fascination.
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