William Oldacre Photography

Tag: reef

  • Living Organism

    Living Organism

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, orange, blue, pink, vibrant, wedge, shape
    Unnamed Twenty Eight, 2018 — Sidelong :: (click to see more)

    In considering ideas for my next project, I’ve been thinking about the city as a living organism or perhaps a living reef. The inert infrastructure is ever morphing from the efforts of us the living inhabitants – we are like the city’s life blood. We come and go, supporting, utilizing, inhabiting as we change and grow the structure of the city to meet our needs.

    The perspective of my work on the city to date has been from close proximity – illustrating this concept in detail. Perhaps it’s time to pull back and take a larger view – although I feel the problem will be time scale. My close proximity images have all been short time scale but to properly present the flow in a larger view I’ll need a longer scale – much longer.

  • The City/Body

    The City/Body

    Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, orange, muted, streaks, pattern, sunset
    Orange Jupiter Squall, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more)

    Staring out my studio window now watching as vehicles and people struggle to move about in this winter snow storm I imagine the city as a body – somewhat geometric in design but organic in it’s deference to the geography of the land.

    Referring to our highways and byways as arteries – we are corpuscles – cells of the body moving about carrying out our duties – living out our lives within the life of the city. We are the miniscule creatures of a reef accreting the city around us as we live – industriously building and changing it.

    These are documents of the flow of this organism – of which we are a part. And more, they are documents from within the organism – from our miniscule perspective – enveloping our emotion – dilated and disengaged from time.