abstraction | exploration | variation
Attrition System is an exploration of abstract imagery based on photographic textures.
More or less confined to home during the covid lockdowns, digital photos of visual textures were collected from around the house and garden - stains on stone paving, peeling paint, scratched or corroded surfaces. Without a commute at the start and end of the working day, that time was spent exploring abstraction through the layering of the images. This work has since evolved and broadened in scope, moving away from the consciously quiet, ambient atmosphere of the initial sequences into more rugged territory.
Each sequence is built largely upon discrete sets of source material, linked thematically or by location. each image is developed via a process of visual erosion, or attrition – multiple layers of photographic texture, each eating away at the previous.