Time Framed series, ongoing project
Nikon D7000, iPhone 5
Time and humans have created these incredible surfaces. They appear and disappear. Constantly changing.
How can the things we pass by every day be so overlooked? These surfaces are right in front of us all the time. Just like the way we can overlook the people in our lives as time goes on. People can become part of the scenery while you go from point A to point B, but when we take the time to look at them, you remember how unbelievable they are. And sometimes to change someone’s perspective, all you need to do is point out the obvious.
To recognize the importance of seeing the trees (these blank spaces) and the forest (city). The everyday life of NYC.
Street photography. At street art’s roots, it’s about changing what’s around you—seeing a wall and changing it. Photographing the subway is the opposite in some sense. Not changing it, but trying to remember the way it is.
Who’s recording these spaces? I wasn’t sure. So I started. Like an endangered animal, once these surfaces are gone we’ll probably wish we had appreciated them more.
These blank spaces, where ads get pasted and then removed, are already framed. I’d take them straight off the wall if I were a better thief. Behind all of those glossy ads that were created by advertising professionals in fancy offices there is somehow a space being built by disorder that is wabi sabi.